Quotes About Disappointment

Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

To mention just a few: Brian McLaren, The Last Word and After That; Valerie Tarico, Trusting Doubt; Greg Boyd, Benefit of the Doubt; Rachel Held Evans, Faith Unravelled (formerly, Evolving in Monkeytown); Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God; Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Reading the book of Proverbs on child rearing is like paying good money for financial advice and being told after ten sessions, "Here's what I've come up with. Invest your money wisely, and you will be set for retirement." I was hoping for stock tips.

He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? "Optimism!

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

What I'd noticed was that here, in the windshadow of the mountain, it often smelled like rain. It might be raining up on the ridge, I might see the veils and rags of rain hanging down out of the scudding clouds, I might see shrouds of rain hauled over the country the way a fishing boat might drag a net, but—no rain here. A spatter, maybe, then nothing. Willy told me when I first moved in that it was like living in a strip bar. So close, looks so good and you never get laid.

I met another like him, nearly two years later, in San Sebastian, who informed me that he was so disgusted with the British for the way they had let down his Czar that he had ceased altogether to drink whiskey.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Now when Ish-bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel was dismayed.

Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didnít I say, ëDo not deceive me?í”

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

Jobís friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.