Quotes About Disappointment

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.

kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry.

But . . . tell her to call me. I'll explain." "I wouldn't count on hearing from her." "What do you mean? We've been friends for thirty years." Johnny gave her a look so cold she began to shake. "I think that ended today.

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?

Sometimes life kicks the shit out of you; that's all. It's like the Stones said: You can't always get what you want.

That was the thing about her dad: he might be moody and sharp-tempered, even a little scary sometimes, but that was just because he felt things like love and loss and disappointment so keenly. Love most of all.

Mrs. Rondle gave us a pop quiz. So lame.

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

It's just hard to love someone who cancels the cable right before the Walking Dead marathon.

They'd said it would get easier. They'd lied.

People didn't always act the way they should. Not even grown-ups. Sometimes the people who were supposed to protect you from monsters were monsters themselves.

They're waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps

I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up!

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

Beloved, God's promises can never fail to be accomplished, and those who patiently wait can never be disappointed, for a believing faith leads to realization.

Deposit hope in people is like punching against the edge of a sharp knife.

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

You turned your back on me when I needed you.

Love is painful, pointless and overrated.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.