Quotes About Disappointment

You know, the age thing. I have generally found men to be quite a disappointment. Montaigne said that the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

He recognized the perverse mix of anger and glee in his father's voice and knew that something he enjoyed was about to be irrevocably spoiled.

His father's love, once presumed to be fathomless, actually had disturbing creatures scuttling around at the bottom of it: disappointment, anger, frustration.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Daughters," he says. "You raise them and watch them grow up, and you love them so much it makes you crazy. Then one day some guy shows up. Maybe he's nice. Maybe he's got a good job. Maybe he's got his shirt tucked in and he calls you sir. But he's never quite what you're hoping for. If you have one someday—a daughter, I mean—you'll know what I'm talking about.

What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid – but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.' oscar wilde

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

During a July 1942 visit to Portugal and Spain, Schellenberg conducted negotiations with a Brazilian exile, Plínio Salgado, who promised great things for the German cause, but delivered nothing. The

Amoz Oz, who said something of the same kind, but from a different perspective: 'People like you', he said to me, 'are going to become very disappointed in Israel in the years ahead. You want it to behave like a European society. Instead, it is becoming a Middle Eastern society. I hope that it will not behave worse than other Middle Eastern societies. But you should not delude yourself that it is likely to behave much better.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

It just didn't work out. I was wrong, he was wrong. It just got all messed up.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

Svakome cu priznati pravo da me prevari, osim prijatelju

Pominjali su samo ono što se njih ticalo, samo što je njih tištalo. A tištalo ih je mnogo šta, nestašica, skupo?a, strah, velike i male nepravde, prazna obe?anja, puste godine, iznevjerene želje, suviše ?este no?i, rane starosti, male ljubavi, velike mržnje, nesigurnost, poniženja, sav onaj jad što se zove život.

Ne?e da prizna koliko se nadala. A ne zna ?ak ni ?emu.

There ain't no coupe de Ville hidin' in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.