Quotes About Disappointment

What's in Your Rule Book? What is a great evening to you? How did your parents resolve conflict? If you had an hour to do anything, what would you do? Name 3 things married people should never do. What would really disappoint you about someone you love?

Things were supposed to be easy for her but her last week had definitely not been that.

We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.

I'd never been the most responsible employee. It was the hard thing about having two jobs: you had to disappoint them at different times and sometimes you lost track of who you'd fucked over worse.

Honey, I've been to Graceland. It's, you know, smaller than you think. It's really garish, but it's not worth driving that far to see it. I mean . . . he's no Jackson Browne.

He had thought providing for his wife was the greatest expression of devotion. Somehow it hadn't sufficed. How could I have loved her more? I never touched another woman. His sorrow was this: There was something she had needed, something she had tried to call forth from within him, that he did not possess.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

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Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

There goes my meeting. - Oona I'm sorry your latest get-rich-quick scheme has been temporarily put on hold. - DeeDee

Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?

The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion. (Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)

Crushes weren't a precursor to love, they were a precursor to having your heart chewed up like Shark Week.

All of a sudden Yutaka realized he had created a cloud of dust all around him. Oh no! No! This sucks. This blows more than your mama! Hey, now's not the time to come up with stupid jokes!

It's official. Trust is dead.

You were my best friend. I was supposed to know you.