Quotes About Disappointment

The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.

Leeds United had won but I didn't care. I had lost.

Because there is no fucking consolation- No consolation for not winning- That's irreplaceable.

Nothing is ever the way they say it is. Nothing is ever the way you want it to be.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

Some of my least favorite people are my cousins," Zuberi sniffed, not untruthfully. "Well, then, that should make it easier for me not to disappoint you.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

Like the Christian Second Coming, science's promissory materialism is never delivered, and, like the Second Coming, it will never be delivered, yet science's believers go on believing, just as Christian believers go on believing.

He'd discovered the devil's yellow cake in grade school during lunch. Everyone's mother but his had packed their little Americans off to school with these cellophane-wrapped loaves of gold. All Mo ever got was an apple he'd snap into with

The boy would be lavished with presents upon arrival – a new train set, a model plane or a knight's suit of armour. But with nobody to play with Tom would get bored quickly. All he really wanted was to spend time with Mum and Dad, but time was the one thing they never ever gave him. "No. Mother and Father are abroad,

And still at number one… "It's not just yourself you've let down, but the whole school.

You will. Another day." "But Granny…" "Ben, you have to go home." "That's not fair!" "Ben, you must leave now. I can tell you what happened when you come another day." "BUT!" "To be continued," she said.

Don't go into the relationship expecting it to be perfect, only to be let-down and angry once you all realize that y'all have work to do.

On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred.

Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world.

The great question in disappointment is whether we allow it to bring us to ground, to a firmer sense of our self, a surer sense of the world, and what is good and possible for us in that world, or whether we experience it only as a wound that make us retreat from further participation.

To be disappointed is to reassess our self and our inner world, and to be called to the larger foundational reality that lies beyond any false self we had only projected upon the outer world.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.

Love is not always a two-way street, sometimes you pour your energy into something that never gives back. Like people who keep lizards as pets. Is that worse than being alone, or without purpose?

Zoey was disappointed that the van didn't explode into a fireball like in old action movies, but that was one of the downsides of electric car technology.

They were waiting for me, I realized, too late. They were waiting for me to push the attack, to lead them. Welcome aboard the David Wong Disappointment Train, fuckers.

The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.