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Quotes About Disappointment

Every time I think we're on to something meaningful, it dissolves into nothing.
~ Carolyn Keene
Deirdre!" Kendra said. "She broke her promise!
~ Carolyn Keene
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick so that soon it is all over - but in another way. Only there was nothing to be mad at. Unless the store. But the store hadn't asked her to take the job. So there was nothing to be mad at. It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
What good was it? That was the question she would like to know. What the hell good was it. All the plans she had made, and the music. When all that came of it was this trap--the store, then home to sleep, and back at the store again.
~ Carson McCullers
Hay momentos en que le mayor anhelo de un hombre es tener alguien a quien amar, algún punto central en que poder concentrar las emociones difusas. Y también hay momentos en que es preciso descargar en odio los disgustos, los desengaños y temores, bullentes e inquietos como espermatozoides. El desgraciado capitán no tenía a quien odiar, y en los últimos mese se había sentido muy triste.
~ Carson McCullers
I know where that distrust comes from. He grins. When I was little, my mom gave me a cookie. The raisins were made to look like chocolate chips. That's when my trust issues started.
~ Cathryn Fox
You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear
~ Cathy East Dubowski
Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Steven awoke to his alarm ringing at seven a.m. Waking up, the first disappointment of every day, was as usual followed by its faithful friend, dread.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Why did you lead me on for weeks only to tell me you didn't like me. Is that something you learned from Serena?
~ Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar
But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle
~ Chad Kultgen
At that point I was just a little too conscious to hold on to it and I woke up with that awful empty feeling you get when you realize the person who can make you happier than anything is a fucking dream.
~ Chad Kultgen
So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman
~ Charlaine Harris
This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house. What did you expect? I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me.
~ Charlaine Harris
all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.
~ Charlaine Harris
I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy.
~ Charlaine Harris
Now! I told myself briskly, to ward off the melancholy, as I dumped my cup and wrapper in the trash bin and left the restaurant. Now to work, then home, then out on a real date, and tomorrow get out early in the morning to find those boxes! I should have remembered that my plans seldom work out.
~ Charlaine Harris
It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.
~ Charlaine Harris
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~ Maude Adams
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
~ Olivia Colman
Dragon's Lair' we played a lot as kids. It's a fun game to look at - it's not a very fun game to play. Everyone who played it as a kid had the same experience: It's outrageously expensive, it looks really cool, it draws you in like a magnet, and then it just takes your money and is very frustrating.
~ Matt Duffer