Quotes About Disappointment

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

No vision has ever come true, no promise has ever been kept. But then there was you, and you were the promise that would obliterate all of the disappointments of the past. Everything about you insisted on it. Your color, your hair, the way light projects from every part of you. You were the sun that would burn away sponge putrid broken promises of the world.

All this would have been fine, his many offenses, but for the fact that he actually believed that Mae cared. He believed that Mae, graduate of Carleton, dreamer of rare and golden dreams, cared about this job at the gas and electric utility. That she would be worried if Kevin considered her performance on any given day subpar. It drove her mad. The

belt. "But it didn't happen.

I found out something, you know. I discovered that the big things don't love you back. They take and take, and never give in return. They'll drain your blood, your soul, if you let them, and never let go.

I told Marilyn that God told me, "David, if you believe in me, I'm going to be deeply disappointed." I replied, "Don't worry, big guy, I've got your back!

Other-Directed Shoulds lead to feelings of anger and frustration when others don't meet our expectations ("He shouldn't feel that way" or "She shouldn't have said that!"). Other-directed shoulds cause conflicts with others, such as marital problems, arguments, and even violence and war.

Sex and money: the sources of most of our desire and disappointment, our hope and fear.

Promises are just breaks in the rain. Sun comes out for a moment. Just long enough to make you hope. Then it always starts raining again.

When they were introduced, he made a witicism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

there was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them; they ceased to be clouds at all. It just got really foggy.

and I emerge so icky and befouled and cross-eyed from the guy's right hook that I blow what should have been a very legitimate shot at the title in the Men's Best Legs Contest, in which I end up placing third but am told later I would have won the whole thing except for the scowl, swollen and strabismic right eye, and askew swimcap that formed a contextual backdrop too downright goofy to let the full force of my gams' shapeliness come through to the judges.

potential may be worse than none, Jim.

right before he'd mailed her child an expensive toy and then had his phone number changed, he'd awakened from a night of horror-show

They're going to drown me in milk--what a waste of good baby-food!

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.

Better thou hadst not been born than not t' have pleased me better.