Quotes About Disappointment

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

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Nothing ruins a Friday like realizing it's only Wednesday.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Breasts and bosoms have I known Of varied shapes and sizes, From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprizes.

When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality. Seven-year-old

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer: their anger, disappointment, fears, insecurities, and why's. I bring all of me into an encounter with God, aware that nothing in the human experience, or the human response to the ambushes of life, is alien to God.

Are you capable of forgiving and loving God even when you have found out that He is not perfect, even when He has let you down and disappointed you by permitting bad luck and sickness and cruelty in His world, and permitting some of those things to happen to you? Can you learn to love and forgive Him despite His limitations, as Job does, and as you once learned to forgive and love your parents even though they were not as wise, as strong, or as perfect as you needed them to be?

When Roy Armstrong and Joe Young drove into Wakopa twenty minutes later—having finally extricated their car from the mud—they saw a crowd gathered outside Morgan's general store. Still dreaming of splitting the reward down the middle, the two men could feel their hearts sink

Holding on to conditional beliefs about how people should behave toward you because of all you do for them will only set you up to feel disappointment, anger, and resentment to people in particular as well as disillusionment about others in general

I don't want to pretend. I want to achieve, really achieve. Or I will take my disappointments like anyone else.

What was the good of trying to keep your own (children) if when they grew up their days were like your own- changeovers and ugly painted dolls?

But cynicism is only disappointed idealism.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

When rudely awakened from the dazzling dream of compatibility, people can get very grumpy. Desperate to end the pain and disappointment Romantic Love leaves behind, many couples get divorced. Others who decide not to do the mind-numbing work of dividing up the stuff may stay together. But they wind up living parallel lives, without any true connection. They assume this is as good as it gets. But secretly they think something must be terribly wrong.

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

Life has a nasty way of being increasingly unfair.

Don't wait for him, angel. Not unless he can do better than that.

I warned you before not to marry him if he couldn't kiss you as I did. Now I can warn you that you'll never have anything like you had tonight with him. Not in a thousand years, Kiernan.

Adults are not always so fun. Sometimes I go to parties filled with mature people who know things and act their age and I"m quickly filled with despair. I walk in the door and greet the host and mill about, but in the pit of my stomach I know that leaving home was a mistake. I will not be surprised and delighted. I will not learn something new. I will not even enjoy the sound of my own voice. I will be lulled into a state of excruciating paralysis and self-hatred and other-people hatred.