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Quotes About Disappointment

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.
~ Libba Bray
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
~ Marc Guggenheim
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.
~ Mark Twain
That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.
~ Melina Marchetta
If you want something done right, just forget it.
~ Neil Peart
People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.
~ Patti Davis
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.
~ Pauline Kael
It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.
~ Peter Weller
Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head
~ Rachel Cohn
The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.
~ Rachel Vincent
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.
~ Rick Riordan
To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.
~ Joseph Hooker
You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.
~ Jon Stewart
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~ Geezer Butler
No matter how much you disappoint one another, or infuriate one another, no one makes you feel as connected to life as family.
~ Susan Crandall
Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. "Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn't even that good." She fought the urge to apologize.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Si comienzas a imaginar cosas que no van a ocurrir, lo único que conseguirás es salir herida.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany.
~ Susan Glaspell
her meanness had been able to creep right into me through the weakness of my own disappointment.
~ Susan Holloway Scott
Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.
~ Susan Juby
like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.
~ Susan Juby
I'm tired of caring about people who end up leaving me.
~ Susan Lee