Quotes About Disappointment

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little ... I tried to read between your lines as you would so rarely speak but I gave you far more credit than you were actually due you see I thought I was only seeing half the man but that was all there was to you

Ich finde es schade, dass es nicht Mark ist - er hätte es sein können. Er hätte es sein sollen. Es hätte etwas bedeuten können. Vielleicht nicht viel, aber sichtlich mehr.

That's why the sweetness of the sexual contact is perfect, but it can only be a dissappointment.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

Can't anybody here play this game?

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

It seems like I'm always an hour late or a dollar short. I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life, and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Mr S. got angry. 'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.' I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?' He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

I stayed sober for this?

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

You disappoint me, Arianne. Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.

Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.

This fool he promised me is like to be my own reflection in a pond.

What we want is not always what we get.

Even dreams cannot live up here.

Bran was relieved . . . but disappointed too. So long as there was magic, anything could happen. Ghosts could walk, trees could talk, and broken boys could grow up to be knights. "But there isn't," he said aloud in the darkness of his bed. "There's no magic, and the stories are just stories." And he would never walk, nor fly, nor be a knight.

She bleats like a bloody sheep.

Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me, Lord Snow.

Los hombres siempre aseguran estar hambrientos de verdad, pero cuando se la sirven, pocos encuentran su sabor agradable. Tyrion Lannister

Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …