Quotes About Disappointment

My Schadenfreude phaser is set to Meh.

It was clear that he didn't think Joshua was any great prize. But the same could be said of him; Al Bowen was one of those guys who looked like he had spent far too much of his life being a roadie for the Grateful Dead.

You know what the worst fucking part of that was," Kiva said as they headed to the door. "What?" "Motherfucker ran down jollof rice. It's not fucking banal. I was going to order that.

They have vegan cheese." "No, they don't. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.

Wishing just brought earned disappointment.

Puts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life—so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do. No," he said, "I'm having enjoyment. And I made a promise to myself that I would not consider enjoyment a sin. I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.

She felt hurt that he had agreed so easily. And she laughed sourly at herself that she could ask a thing and be hurt when she got it.

They was havin' the time a their life, an' same time you wouldn' give a gopher for their chance.'' Casy said, "Seems like that's the way. Fella havin' fun, he don't give a damn; but a fella mean an' lonely an' old an' disappointed—he's scared of dyin'!

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

You are all of twenty and very much feeling your womanhood. The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on--the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off. It's rather like being a set of pretty little logs that won't quite catch fire, isn't it?

Janet was a woman in whom early beauty had bred high expectations. Their disappointment brought with it a soured idealism, an idealism capable only of finding the world faulty.

If prayer actually worked, everyone would be a millionaire, nobody would ever get sick and die, and both football teams would always win. —Ethan Winer

school. I never tried to talk a student into coming to UCLA. I tried to show him what was there and what to expect, and I never told him he was going to play; I told him he would have the opportunity to play, and if he was good enough, then he'd be able to. Rosy forecasts during the "courtship" of a player can only lead to disappointment and distrust if anything fails to meet that student's expectations.

When he is done he feels not a burden removed from his shoulders and not an easing of his load but a strange sagging sense of disappointment, as if...he has deflated something whose power might have raised him up.

I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.