Quotes About Disappointment

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

I hate New Year's Eve.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

You slept with Curran and you didn't tell me? I'm your best friend." "It didn't come up." "How disappointing for you." Ha-ha. "That's not what I meant.

I don't know what I expected. No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.

El amor es una palabra bonita que a cambio de una sombra de felicidad te proporciona toda suerte de engaños, falsedades y disgustos.

Psychologically speaking, they tend also to be filled with grim, but devoted, researchers whose accumulated disappointment in not making big breakthroughs is quite tangible — even if they do manage to smile at subjects.

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

I used to hate boys... I grew up... Things changed. Now I hate men.

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.

Here is page 31 again, page 32 ... and then what comes next? Page 17 all over again, a third time! What kind of book did they sell you, anyway? They bound together all these copies of the same signature, not another page in the whole book is any good.

The generations stare at each other grimly, they speak only to misunderstand each other, to trade blame for growing up unhappy and dying disappointed.

Non c'è niente di più disgustoso che di vedersi respinto un consiglio ch'è stato sinceramente studiato con uno sforzo che costò persino delle ore di sonno.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14