Quotes About Disappointment

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

upset or disturb them. The minor problems they encountered were always instantly buffered and solved. Annabelle had grown up in a sacred, golden world, a happy child, among kind, loving people. The past few months had been exciting for her, although tempered by a recent disappointment.

what she had feared, and exactly the opposite of what he had promised two weeks before. He felt like a

she had stopped hoping to meet

He may not have been her Prince Charming, but he had definitely just exposed himself as Prince Shit.

had told her he was

Yeah. Maybe," Lily said, but she was obviously upset about it. She felt forgotten by them all.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home.

Because the one thing I hate about hope - the one thing I despise about it, that no one ever seems to admit about it- is that suddenly having hope is the easiest route to sudden hopelessness there is.

Failure is always a bitter pill to swallow, Mr. Crepsley said.

I'll give you your Christmas present now if you'll give me mine. I shook my head. At breakfast. But it's Christmas now. Breakfast. Whatever you're giving me, she said, I hope I don't like it. You'll have to keep them anyway, because the man at the Aquarium said he positively wouldn't take them back. He said they'd already bitten the tails off the...

I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll be telling her your life's history, and all your troubles and hopes.

Spade] scowled at Gutman and burst out irritably: Jesus God! is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You're a fine lot of lollipops! What are you going to do next-- get down and pray?

I lost my guts out fighting your fights while you were hiding in bed and thinking up new ways of disowning me. Find another wet nurse.

Don Johnson announces he is leaving Miami, dealing a severe blow to the area's hopes to repeat as winner of the Biggest Cockroach Contest.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?