Quotes About Disappointment

it hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart! -

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

This, I think, is how political poison infects a whole culture—it enters the bloodstream through the cuts and bruises of personal disappointment and feeds on hearts wounded by feelings of inadequacy or rejection.

I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery. --- Ann Eliza Young, page 253

Habría sido capaz de ver en su regreso algo distinto del oportunismo. Pero ni siquiera me permitió esa mentira.

It is no wonder that most who came to the goldfields in search of wealth returned home empty handed. Running a gambling house was the easiest way to mine for gold.

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

If you truly believe in a supernatural afterlife, to be sure, nothing can really disappoint you. But there is no consolation in being the last Mohican.

Lincoln could not help making a painful comparison of their careers: "With me, the race of ambition has been a failure—a flat failure;

Without expectations we live in the present, not the future, and we enjoy each moment as it happens without destroying that enjoyment with the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations.

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.

over-inflated expectations

It's one thing to refuse an invitation," Aaron said, "another to be told you'll never get one.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

I had hoped God would be neutral.