Quotes About Disappointment

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from hurt. How can you respect that sort of weakness, how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?

You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We—we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put—you put your mouth on me. Shoulda checked the fine print, hon, whispered Ellen Cherry, trying to assist him back onto the ivy vines as quietly as possible. That blow job did not come with a lifetime warranty.

By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Marx Marvelous is going to break the genius machine when he grows up. That's what everyone said. He hasn't, of course.

my sex life became sort of like Diet Coke—deceptively sweet minus nutrition.

And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

his bed was where they slept and where the great thing people warned about or giggled about took place. It was not so much painful as dull. Cee thought it would get better later. Better turned out to be simply more, and while the quantity increased, its pleasure lay in its brevity.

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.

Sorrow in discovering that the pyramid was not a five-thousand-year wonder of the civilized world, mysteriously and permanently constructed by generation after generation of hardy men who had died in order to perfect it, but that it had been made in the back room at Sears, by a clever window dresser, of papier-mâché, guaranteed to last for a mere lifetime.

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

but the music, which he hoped would coat his nerve ends, only splayed them.

he left her like a skunk leaves a smell.

So I've grown up to be one of those people who gets angry at trees for behaving like trees

It is, quite simply, humiliating.

I couldn't understand what Dad was so angry about. What had we done wrong? Was it because we were girls? My mom always said he wanted a son and I wondered if things would be different if we were boys. Would that make everything better?

Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.

Riley:)...I just wasn't up to coping with the whims and foibles of men right now. Chocolate, coffee and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they> would never disappoint me.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

Udati se za muškarca isto je što i kupiti nešto ?emu smo se dugo divili u izlogu. Predmet koji smo kupili volimo i kad ga donesemo ku?i, ali to ne zna?i da se on nužno uklapa u sve ostalo.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy.

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment.