Quotes About Disappointment

a world of broken promises, a land to flee.

Bunt was disgustedly drinking a pint of beer, eyeing the table with resentment, the dishes of sticky pork and soggy and wilted lettuce, the black vegetables, the gray broth, the purple meat. On one dish of yellow meat was a severed chicken's head, its eyes blinded, its scalloped comb torn like a red rag.

Nothing is stranger than being in a fairly bad place and being told that another place-your destination-is a great deal worse.

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so much better than the film.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.

Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.

Disappointment,Defeat,Despair are the tools God uses to show us our way... (Paulo Coelho)

I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

We aren't who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don't want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.

each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed, saying: The book is so much better than the film.

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

No somos lo que deseamos ser,Somos lo que la sociedad exige.Somos lo que nuestros padres eligieron.No queremos decepcionar a nadie,sentimos una gran necesidad de ser amados.Por eso reprimimos lo mejor de nosotros mismos.Poco a poco,lo que era la luz de nuestros sueños se convierte en el monstruo de nuestras pesadillas.Son los deseos no realizados,las posibilidades no vividas.

But I'm afraid that it would be all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el atentando.

Siempre fue así, suspiró rendida, pan para hoy y hambre para mañana, tan pronto creía tener algo y la vida se lo quitaba de un arañazo.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

Disappointment, embarrassment, and all the places where we cannot feel good are a sort of death... It's actually a sign of health that when we meet the place we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.