Quotes About Disappointment

You look like someone just ran over your goldfish.

Constantly texting with guys I'll probably never date is my current long term relationship.

There's silence for a long moment as we all watch him go: then, like air whizzing out of a balloon, we all deflate. No more excitement for us. The hot boy has left the building.

I heard him tell our parents, "She said no," and my melancholy deepened. Mom and Dad and Chris were downstairs together, merrily strapping on nunchucks and punching each other in the face, while here I was, gloomy and alone. And whose fault is that? I asked myself. Oh, shut up. , I replied.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

As I listened to the lyrics – truly listened, instead of just letting them float over me – the almost-pleasant feelings went away. I'd always thought this was an inspirational song about God or something, because of all the hallelujahs. Only it turned out there were words before and after the hallelujahs, and those words were hardly uplifting.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

I can't believe you gave me a bag of dirt and then broke up with me!

Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

that King Manuel had refused to back the navigator, humiliating him over and over again.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Revenge is a good motivator, but it always disappoints in the end.

Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She

His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.

How he'd asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he'd saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked.

You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing.

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway. A dull chill creeps over her. Perhaps—and this thought chokes her—that had dragged Lydia underwater at last.

Was she sad? She was angry. Furious at the smallness of her mother's life.

I realize that I am not happy with the life I lead. I always had one kind of life in mind and things have turned out very differently.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off.

o femeie care pretuieste mai mult decat barbatul cu care traieste este o mare nefericita.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.