Quotes About Disappointment

When you expect something, you're sure to be disappointed. I learned that a long time ago.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. 'Then why are you here?

I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.

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

Why do you always get the tired ones when you're ready and the randy ones when you're tired?

That's love for you. When it's good, it's magic. When it isn't, it just pees all in your soup.

If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I had become was more or less what he would have described, in however halting a fashion, I am sure of it. This is remarkable, I think, even allowing for my present sorrows. Are not the majority of men disappointed with their lot, languishing in quiet desperation in their chains?

I am amazed at how little has changed in the more than fifty years that have gone by since I was last here. Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?

In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant—heroical in other words. One dead. I myself conventional. I turn out I.

Sorry to disappoint you," said Charles. "I had thought about inviting a bunch of seven-year-olds to dinner but then I remembered that tonight was really rather important and our future happiness might depend on the outcome." "So he's not coming?" I said, just to clarify. "No," said Charles. "He's not.

Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything.

There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two—a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ratholes we all share, disarmed by the gullibility of our hearts.

As I approach my fortieth birthday without having accomplished any one of the things I intended to accomplish—without ever having achieved the deep creativity that I have worked toward for all this time—I feel that I take a minor, an obscure, a dim position that is not my destiny but that is my fault, as if I had lacked, somewhere along the line, the wit and courage to contain myself competently within the shapes at hand.

Do you realize what that means? Do you know what that feels like? To live for fifteen years on promises and expectations and loans and credits in hotels that aren't fit to live in, never for a single day to be out of debt, and yet to pretend, to feel that every year, every winter, every job, every meeting is going to be the one. To live like this for fifteen years and then to realize that it's never going to end. Do you know what that feels like?

Kimseyi beklemiyordum; etraf?mdaki kad?nlar da kocalar?n? bekliyorlard? sadece, ama bana hepimiz çok daha fazlas?n? bekliyormuÅŸuz gibi geliyordu.

isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty Uncle Harry, the rake, seems to wear the laurels.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.

When you want them they don't want you, when they want you , you don't want them. But when you both want each other, something has to come along and mess it up.

There's nothing worse than putting all your effort into doing everything right for someone you love, and having it end up all wrong.

Why is it so hard to fall in love? Because sometimes you fall and no one was there to catch you. Sometimes you fall and they don't have enough strength to hold you. And sometimes you fall and the wrong person catches you.

It seems when you want someone, they dont want you. And when someone wants you, you dont want them. And when you both want each other, something has to come around and mess it up.

I haven't meet Mr. Right yet but I have met Mr. Fake, Mr. Rude and Mr. Asshole...

Anyone that thinks they can be blissful 100% of the time will be disappointed. Anyone that thinks love is a magic wand that will make you blissful 100% of the time will start asking the above questions.

Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you and you meant nothing to him.