Quotes About Disappointment

I have asked too much, too much.

The effect of the rupture that sin created in the relationship between the man and the woman is this: mistrust, anger, and disappointment became the standard quality of human life. Even

The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.

It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.

I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism.

He was surprised at how useless his mind was.

Hey soda girl. You're flat.

SOMETIMES SIRI SEEMED so ignorant it made me sick.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

Mindfulness helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt or dissapointment creates endless cascades of rumination

I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.

I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that's why we broke up.

Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything? A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

She was excited by the idea of having something dedicated to her, but I don't think she really liked it. Just goes to show that you can't have everything you want in one woman.One more argument for polygamy.

I dedicated my first piano concerto to Fay. She was excited by the idea of having something dedicated to her, but I don't think she really liked it. Just goes to show that you can't have everything you want in one woman. One more argument for polygamy.

So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won't talk about it, it's too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me - something that I'd always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar - a tough spot but also a sore spot.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

This is a day of little faith – of few convictions – a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

Best friends loan out DVDs knowing that they'll never be seen again.

"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, because they don't."