Quotes About Disappointment

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

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

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.

The name of the zoo was the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. As I crossed the parking area, I prepared myself for disappointment. I am going to see a collection of snakes, lizards, and miserable creatures in jars, feel terribly sorry for them, and leave.

She should have been used to disappointment by now, but pessimism wasn't normally her bag. Lisa would say Sami was a discouraged optimist. An oxymoron for sure.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.

I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow.

Een man die zich haar vader noemde, maar zoiets deed een vader toch niet?

Voor het eerst in haar leven voelde ze een vleug pure haat opkomen, snel en schichtig, als een nog onbekende vijand die niet gezien wil worden en wegduikt in het struikgewas als je zijn kant op kijkt. Haat jegens de man die hun dit had aangedaan. Een man die zich haar vader noemde, maar zoiets deed een vader toch niet?

But she wasn't in love, though she had been ready to be. Love sank down gently from where it had been swollen in expectation -- she imagined a red balloon deflating to a foolish remnant. (In the cave, 171)