Quotes About Disappointment

It's not good for a boy to want something with all his heart and then be disappointed. Things like that can hurt for a long time.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.

Everyone, Ross said, seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience? We are not–untender, she said. Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.

he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he was ten.

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.

quedó libre de toda responsabilidad y dedicado a contemplar las faltas inevitables, las debilidades, las sorpresas y los desengaños que la lucha tenía reservados.

Soñamos, ¡pero tan negligentemente, tan a la ligera! «Quiero ser un pájaro», dice este o aquel. Pero si el sumiso destino lo convirtiese en un pavo, se sentiría desencantado.

PoszedÅ'em do modnego sklepu Ostende i kupiÅ'em parÄ™ bucików ?óÅ'tych, które okazaÅ'y siÄ™ za ciasne. WróciÅ'em wiÄ™c do sklepu i wymieniÅ'em tÄ™ parÄ™ na innÄ…, tego samego fasonu i numeru i w ogóle identycznÄ… pod ka?dym wzglÄ™dem, która okazaÅ'a siÄ™ równie ciasna. Bywa, i? sobÄ… zdumiewam siebie.

The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval.

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.

being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.

La amenaza ovni Esa última frase fue interpretada por el clero medieval como un anuncio de que el mundo tocaba a su fin, y fue general la desilusión cuando llegó el lunes y todos tuvieron que volver a trabajar.

WaÅ'Ä™samy siÄ™ samotnie po kosmosie i z rozczarowania i z bólu zadajemy sobie nawzajem gwaÅ't.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie, te topas con que tienes que confiar. Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla.

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

There's no boot. No boot? No. That makes me sad. I ate it. You ate the boot? Yes. Was it good? No. Were the cigarettes good? No. I couldn't finish them. I couldn't finish the boot.

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.

People, generally, suck.

Giorno per giorno vedo la gente affollarsi nei teatri e nei cinematografi, e so che per la metà delle volte, e anche più, vanno a una ricerca cieca, e credono di essere soddisfatti mentre in realtà vengono pasciuti di miseri gusci vuoti. E la parte più triste di tutto questo è che se ci si immagina di essere soddisfatti dei gusci, non rimarrà più appetito per il buon grano.