Quotes About Disappointment

Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do?

Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though...they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked noodle in the pasta salad of love.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

There was a little smile on his mouth—the mouth that had been kissing hers. Otherwise, he was incommunicado. "Liam?" she said again, more loudly this time. Nada. He was out cold. Down for the count. She straightened abruptly. Face was burning, joints buzzing with adrenaline, chest filled with helium. Liam Murphy had kissed her. And he'd fallen asleep in the middle of it. She didn't know whether to burst into song or kick something.

It's not easy, you know, to be in love with your husband and watch him slowly grow disappointed with who you actually are.

It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.

So tell me what brings you here," Laney says. Adam and I look at each other. He says nothing. Ass-hat. That's one of Jenny's favorite words, and it's becoming one of mine, too. I wait him out, staring steadily, wondering if he can feel the poison seeping out of my heart.

Sometimes, your life shatters when you least expect it. Car accidents, lost pregnancies, divorce, loneliness. People you loved could disappoint you, and other people came through when you never expected it. And sometimes, happiness just rains down on you out of the clear blue sky.

In a way, Emerson's list taught me something I hadn't anticipated. You didn't get everything in life. I'd always thought if you worked hard enough and tried to be your best self, the universe would listen. But it didn't always. As my grandfather used to say, God was not a grocer; you didn't hand him a list and have him go through it, checking off everything you'd asked for. You could be fulfilled just the same...and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

Human gesture. Betrayed, betrayed.

Once she'd realized she'd never meet her mother's expectations, it didn't seem real important to meet anyone else's.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Fare scienza è una successione di delusioni, cose che non funzionano, idee sbagliate, esperimenti che non riescono, conti che non tornano. di tanto in tanto punteggiata da momenti di gioia.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

Aún era yo la criatura encogida y amargada a la que le han roto un sueño.

Llegaba a mi casa, de la que ninguna invitación a un veraneo maravilloso me iba a salvar, de vuelta de mi primer baile en el que no había bailado.

But for the most part, she was the Maude who Alice would have said she wanted all along. But instead of seeming more reasonable, practical, or grown up, this perfected version of Maude seemed smaller, diminished by her easy acceptance of reduced circumstances.