Quotes About Disappointment

I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock it never is at home.

Their tameness is shocking to me.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Binder didn't plan on being disappointed either. He felt a growing obsession to unstring the secrets the house held, to unravel the Gordian knot time and myth had only tightened.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

For a while, every day, even though the snow was piled and the sky dead and the winter wind was blowing, I watched for my aunt to come again and bring me a book like my ma'd said she would. She never came.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

I don't understand," Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.

Frank's wisdom here is worth emphasizing: it is a question of the attitude one takes toward life's challenges and opportunities, both large and small. A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

He looked like a man who'd invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.

Our villains always disappoint us. They never look the part.

You don't want to hear what I have to say. You only want me to say what you want to hear. But trust me when I tell you that you won't ever get all you want. You'll just grow frustrated and bitter, and you'll end up doing things that will kill the best part of you.

When your ambition is so wrought that you're never satisfied, it takes a load of pressure off. Every spot on the ladder is equally disappointing because it is not the rung above. Which means I've perfectly filled my potential; I've reached as high as I'll ever get, the point of not good enough.

Men are shits." "All men?" "Maybe I'm being too harsh. There might be a nice guy in Toledo. I'm just talking about the ones I sleep with.

His face was as welcoming as a turned back.

She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.

Aye. He was very nice there. The rest of my life'll be an anti-climax.

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.