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Quotes About Disappointment

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
~ Karen Salmansohn
I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
~ Lee Unkrich
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.
~ Fred Haise
You're quite the humanitarian. By the way, thanks a fuck of a lot for leaving me off your who-to-save list. You're on it, Alfredo Garcia. I just didn't want to say it out loud and have you call me Nancy or Tinker Bell. Yeah, I would have done that.
~ Richard Kadrey
I got my ass kicked by some third-rate spooks and now my nice kitchen looks like a drunk brontosaurus tried to fuck the dishwasher.
~ Richard Kadrey
I sit there on the bed feeling foolish and angry and completely confused by the world. After the craziness last night, I thought that today I might get a day off from the shitstorm. But, if anything, the situation is even worse.
~ Richard Kadrey
Instead they're crying like a school bus full of little French girls whose ice cream all melted.
~ Richard Kadrey
How did things go?" "On a scale of one to ten, about a negative nine.
~ Richard Kadrey
The closer I get, the shittier Abbot looks. His hair is long and he seems weak and frail. He was never a big guy and it looks like he lost twenty pounds and his surgical mask droops on his face. With his bony cheekbones, when he smiles he looks like a well-dressed corpse.
~ Richard Kadrey
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
~ Richard Linklater
It's easy to hate the game when your losing.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments? [Richelle Bach's diary]
~ Richard Paul Evans
Iti petreci viata construind tot felul de fantezii romantice.Nu te astepti din partea cavalerului sa te arunce de pe cal la o aruncatura de bat de castel.
~ Richard Paul Evens
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
~ Richard Russo
And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them, and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be, and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy. And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy. And the boy who loves you in the wrong way keeps weakening. You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.
~ Richard Siken
And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them, and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be, and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy.
~ Richard Siken
You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.
~ Richard Siken
I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.
~ Richard Siken
You had expected something else, anything else
~ Richard Siken
I pull the door open and step inside, bracing myself for the heat and noise, but there is nothing here tonight. Just a few lights flicked on, running up and down the walls, and one long solitary bulb directly over the ring–a soft yellow glow emanating from the metal cage wrapped around it.
~ Richard Thomas
She cried because she'd had such high, high hopes about the Wheelers tonight and now she was terribly, terribly, terribly disappointed. She cried because she was fifty six years old and her feet were ugly and swollen and horrible; she cried because none of the girls had liked her at school and none of the boys had liked her later; she cried because Howard Givings was the only man who'd ever asked her to marry him, and because she'd done it, and because her only child was insane.
~ Richard Yates
I know I had it - I could feel it, the way you feel blood in your veins - and now I reach for it and reach for it, and it isn't there.
~ Richard Yates
time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes
~ Richard Yates
the shelves on shelves of unread or half-read or read-and-forgotten books that had always been supposed to make such a difference and never had
~ Richard Yates