Quotes About Disappointment

Prophecy is like a half-trained mule," he complained to Jorah Mormont. "It looks as though it might be useful, but the moment you trust in it, it kicks you in the head.

The gods make japes of all our hopes and plans.

He was not finding life as a white man the rosy existence he had anticipated. He was forced to conclude that it was pretty dull and that he was bored. As a boy he had been taught to look up to white folks as just a little less than gods; now he found them little different from the Negroes, except that they were uniformly less courteous and less interesting.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never know full possession which disappoints by its very completeness. O what joy to be able to postpone the fulfillment of desire to infinity!

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

I thought we were going to have chops,' complained Larry aggrievedly. 'I spent all morning getting my taste buds on tiptoe with the thought of chops. What happened to them?' 'I'm afraid it's the owls, dear,' said Mother apologetically. 'They have such huge appetites.' Larry paused, a spoonful of curry halfway to his mouth.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.