Quotes About Disappointment

When I became a Christian as a teenager, I gathered a false belief to myself that my Christian friends would be my forever friends. Surely, since we both loved Jesus and followed Him, we would always be in each other's lives. No one would hurt the other -- because Jesus! It didn't take long for that theory of mine to be tested by reality.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best." Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

No matter how much they want it, or how much I want it, I can't make it happen. The feeling of failure is familiar. I always tried so hard to be everything they wanted

How did you do it, Mother?" I asked, still staring at the passing carriages below. "How did you travel all the way from Gastineux to marry a toad you didn't love?" "Your father is not a toad," my mother said sternly. I whirled to face her. "A king maybe, but a toad nonetheless. Do you mean to tell me that when you married a stranger twice your age, you didn't think him a toad?

I gave you a chance. I gave you every chance.

But now here I was, out in the middle of nowhere, unable to help anyone, not even myself. I was crushed to the desert floor, my face ground into the sand. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Betrayed by someone I had trusted. More than trusted. I had cared about him.

and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say Ive always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, 'Is it a queer book?' 'No,' said Laurie. 'Oh,' said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

I know what you feel like anyone else. It's people that matter. If not, what are you worrying about. What's Madge got that you can't have for a bob against the railings? You care about someone and they let you down. Where's the difference?

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

The quickest thing to turn to hate is love betrayed.

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

about failed to cheer her. She felt the

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.