Quotes About Disappointment

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be bigger.

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

We're no good at holidays, the wife and I. We just don't have the knack. We had one good one, early on, but that was a fluke. Everything since then has been a nightmare.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.

It's no fun when you lose.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

I wanted never to disappoint my father. His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

And, after all, no one ever said that life was fair; what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

Confía en las personas —me aconsejaba— hasta que te den motivos para no hacerlo. Y entonces no vuelvas a fiarte nunca.

I understood then what my aunt had been trying to tell me, just as I knew my parents still loved me. I knew they wanted the best for me, now and in the future. But they wanted to see their own feelings in the photos, not mine. They wanted me to see myself in the same way they did. My parents, I knew, wanted to see disappointment.

I knew full well that none of those were the kinds of occupations they'd grown up dreaming about.

And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and it'll be the same thing as always. The prose will have pulled back, and the poem will be there, cavorting, saying, I'm a poem, I'm a poem. No, you're not! You're an impostor, you're a toy train of pretend stanzas of chopped garbage. Just like my poem was.