Quotes About Disappointment

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

More in sorrow than in anger.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

This guy put the suck in success.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

I've had a wonderful evening — but this wasn't it.

ajzat ishin te bardha si endrra e mengjesit por fatkeqesisht , po aq te pakapshme si endrra.

Tako obicno biva. Oni koje zelimo da vidimo ne dolaze u casovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najvise ocekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih.

Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.

for the supervisor's failure to promote us, for Boo-Boo's cheating, and for the fact that we just can't seem to get our lives

They say that you can never go home again. You look for everything to be the same and when you find that things have changed, you are left reeling, crestfallen and dazed.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

she had nothing now that the fantasy was gone.

It's a damn small world when it sucks.

Idols always fall, Eve.

Eventually you'll be next. Eventually you'll disappoint him, and he'll feel betrayed by you. Idols always fall, Eve.

Well, it's stupid, and it's no wonder people are perpetually fucked up, as nobody can depend on something as basic as February. Which is already screwed up because it insists on having less days, then adding one like a little prize every four years even though everybody wants February to get the hell over so we can move on.

You were never what he wanted you to be. And more than even I hoped. In weak moments, I might credit the lieutenant for some of that.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE