Quotes About Disappointment

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

Campbell Julia says Don't do this to me Do what? Push me off the same cliff twice

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

For every person you make happy, there's another one you disappoint.

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?

The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Don't expect things to happen it's better to be surprised than be disappointed.

Life sucks when your girlfriend won't!

Friends stab you in the heart, boyfriends stab you in the back but best friends don't carry knifes, well I thought they didn't...

So thank you for showing me that best friends can not be trusted and thank you for lying to me, Your friendship, the good times we had, you can have them back,

To avoid disappointment, being lied to & cheated on...she puts up a wall to protect herself.