Quotes About Disappointment

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when "should be" gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Am c?utat uitarea-n iubire: ce folos! C?ci dragostea mi-e numai un pat cu spini, f?cut S? dea acestor fete cumplite de b?ut!

It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Our disappointment sits between us.

It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

New affairs were exciting but they were also hard work. The first kiss, the first fuck had some drama. People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

they are unhappy with what I have become

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say 'DEATH HAS TWELVE WINGS LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL!' but people aren't built that way. You can only say 'Hey, uh, baby, why don't ya' make me a cup of coffee?

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.

Then I heard a man scream from the next ward, Joe, where are you? Joe, you said you'd come back! Joe, where are you? The voice was loud and so sad, so agonized.(...) Joe wasn't coming. It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

If I bet on Humanity I'd never cash a ticket.

But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.)

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.a

we are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting it is as if the sun were a mind that has given up on us.

the people will always betray you. never trust the people.

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.