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Quotes About Disappointment

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
~ Helen Fielding
I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.
~ Helen Garner
Sometimes life seems very unfair.
~ Helen Humphreys
She doesn't want to think of that woman, not now. She's just one more person who hasn't kept her promise; just one more person who hasn't returned to Harriet.
~ Helen Humphreys
They tried their best with each other, but it just wasn't any good.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Fox didn't come, he didn't come, he didn't.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
~ Helen Rowland
special relationship A relationship with someone that we think will contribute to our specialness and save us from the perceived lack we feel within ourselves. This love is not real and will sooner or later end in disappointment. God's answer to this mistaken endeavor is to create holy relationships joined together by His Love.
~ Helen Schucman
Disappointment is in fact a kind of grief—a reaction to the loss of something you desired. If you honor and gently hold the disappointment inside you, and at the same time keep yourself open to the wanting behind the disappointment, you'll be able to weather your disappointments and keep going. Another
~ Helene Brenner
I went down to Chemical—and after asking to see everything but my teeth, they cashed {my cheque}. Nothing infuriates me like those friendly, folksy bank ads in magazines and on TV. Every bank I ever walked into was about as folksy as a cobra.
~ Helene Hanff
he went on strike and withdrew into the sulking corner of the religiously disappointed.
~ Helmut Thielicke
How can something be so wonderful and yet so disappointing at the same time?
~ Hena Khan
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
~ Henny Youngman
Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?" "I had hopes, I had hopes." "Hopes? Hopes of what?" "I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.
~ Henri Barbusse
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
~ Henrik Ibsen
For looking down the ladder of our deeds, The rounds seem slender: all past work appears Unto the doer faulty: the heart bleeds, And pale Regret comes weltering in tears, To think how poor our best has been, how vain, Beside the excellence we would attain.
~ Henry Abbey
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.
~ Henry Marsh
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
~ Henry Rollins
Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.
~ Henry Rollins
I watched her perform on the Grammys and she totally sucked. The song 'All I Want to Do is Have Some Fun' sucks and when she walked out of that place with all those Grammies I knew I was going to give mine away. I did. If they're giving them away for crap, I don't want one in my place. What an insult to real music and musicians everywhere.
~ Henry Rollins
We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.
~ Henry Rollins
At some point they show their true colors After the break up After the trial After the contract is signed and broken Their true colors stink These days I find it hard to get along with them I want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and see I do the same to the ones I like The ones I don't care about I smile at real nice
~ Henry Rollins