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Quotes About Disappointment

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things
~ Mira Grant
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
~ Demetri Martin
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
~ George Carlin
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
~ Mitch Hedberg
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
~ Mark Twain
Plans are invitation to disappointment.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
~ Marc Maron
I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
~ Tommy Cooper
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
~ Jim Butcher, Small Favor
My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.
~ Milton Jones
I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
~ Emo Philips
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
~ Jon Stewart
I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."
~ Bill Engvall
The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
~ David Cross
If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
~ Adam Carolla
The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.
~ Kristen Schaal
What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.
~ Dave Barry
You stupid piece of warm bacon.
~ Hugh Lofting
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
~ John Grisham
I hate it when I go into a Snack Shack and they're out of Blue Ice. The other slushie flavors taste like cheap candy.
~ Daven Anderson
I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.
~ Dyan Sheldon, Planet Janet