Quotes About Disappointment

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even though in their search for justice and truthfulness they were beaten down and met with disappointment again and again—their lives were not available for use as an illustration. Theirs were not stories that could be read as an affirmation of another system.

Sophia poured out tea, and asked after his Lesbian irises. 'They were not what they seemed,' he said, 'wretched things. I brought the roots all the way from Lesbos, as you know, and when they came up, what were they? Mere pansies. Too mortifying.

They were all delightedly hoping to give me exactly the post-Scholomance life I'd dreamed of for years. The bastards.

But my father's irritation told me otherwise. I had been a disappointment to him from the beginning, my mother having taken an excessive number of years to produce me, and shortly afterwards miscarrying the overdue son and dying with him.

I opened the door expecting to find something really horrible inside, and I did: eight freshmen, all of whom turned and stared at me like a herd of small and especially pitiful deer about to be mown down by a massive lorry.

I walked slowly back to the baker, to give him a worn penny in return for a coarse half-burned loaf that hadn't been the loaf I'd made at all. He'd given a good loaf to one of his other customers, and kept a ruined one for us.

Als bungeejumpen van de hoogste klif ter wereld je geweldig lijkt, zou je dit ook fantastisch vinden. Ik vond het persoonlijk niks.

Last year we thought this year would be better and this year last year looks pretty good.

Men and women who come to the closing chapter of life disappointed because they did not attain the goal which they had set their hearts upon achieving, they teach you what not to do.

Disappointment over love affairs, generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

In Success, defeat is but an incident. Obstacles, stumbling blocks, disappointment in ideals — these things weave into and form the Raiment to Success. For Success is a series of failures — put to flight. Learn to walk past Failure.

After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Hay decepciones que honran a quien las inspira.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

Hope is cruel and has no consequence

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

Una vez me dijo que sentìa haber sido una decepciòn para mì. Le pregunté que de donde habìa sacado aquella idea absurda. De sus ojos, padre, de sus ojos, dijo. Ni una sola vez se me ocuriò que tal vez yo habìa sido una decepciòn todavìa mayor para ella. A veces nos creemos que las personas son décimos de loterìa: que estàn ahì para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas.

Il est des déceptions qui honorent celui qui les inspire.

I stopped asking my father to take me to see Victor Hugo's pen, and he didn't mention it again. That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was that of a thin man wearing an old suit that was too large for him and a secondhand hat he had bought on Calle Condal for seven pesetas, a man who could not afford to buy his son a wretched pen that was useless but seemed to mean everything to him.

him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

promises were a bit like hearts: once the first was broken, breaking the rest was a piece of cake.