Quotes About Disappointment

History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams.

If I sound bitter, that's because I'm still a little bitter.

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

I think I love the scene because it reflects how love works. "Soul mates" is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

We don't have intercourse anymore. I'm not complaining, it's my own fault. I lie there beside him and try to send signals to my vagina, but it's like trying to get cable channels on a Tv that doesn't have cable. My mind requests sex, but my vagina is just waiting for the next time it has to pee. It thinks its whole job in life is to pee.

Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

Net als seks, net als drugs, net als alle manipulaties van onze geest, die eindelijk eens uit je schedel zou willen uitbreken en de wijde wereld in trekken, is literatuur een werktuig dat eerst gelukzaligheid produceert, en vervolgens teleurstelling. Na tienduizend boeken te hebben gelezen, kun je niet om de onvermijdelijke vraag heen: waar was mijn leven al die tijd?

Ca È™i sexul, ca È™i drogurile, ca toate manipul?rile minÈ›ii noastre ce-ar vrea s? sparg? odat? È›easta È™i s? ias? la larg, literatura e o maÈ™in? de produs mai întâi beatitudine, apoi dezam?gire.

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

You think when you get to go where you want to go, finally you be happy, but then when you get to where you want to go, you are actually even more miserable because you have nothing left to aspire to, and you feel this hopelessness, like what's left to aspire towards?

Puede que ganar unas elecciones siga siendo una de las grandes emociones de la vida, pero el brillo de esa victoria se extingue ahora muy rápido para dar paso a la frustración.

What the deuce does he mean by all this? I thought I had found a clever man who would give me good advice, and I find a chimney-sweep, who, instead of speaking to me, plays at mora.

his mother and I aren't too happy about Richard. Frankly, he's getting a bit, er, well … first reading poetry when he ought to be getting his pony ready for the Bath and County next Thursday, then lying to his mother – took his beating in a very, well, cowardly way, then, am I right? howling on your, in your, in the schoolroom,' the Captain finished desperately.

Her dreams had not survived her dreaming them; they'd been broken and repaired, only to be smashed again and again.

She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Mordecai Richler