Quotes About Disappointment

Don't water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

When I met you last night baby Before you opened up your gap I had respect for ya lady But now I take it all back

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope

Who can say to love doesn't also mean to disappoint and to deceive? I said.

Lilia's mother had married the wrong man. It was like boarding a train that never takes you in the right direction, let alone to the destination you have in mind. The farther it travels, the less point there is in going on, and the lesser in getting off.

This is why I hate things like love, not only it will turn me into a fool, it would also turn me into a complete failure.

We had two field goals and a touchdown and they had five field goals. So ... for us, to lose to a team kicking five field goals was like --? that was an extra slap in the face. It was like, it was the Giants, No. 1. No. 2, it was our three-peat. No. 3, we fumbled with it kind of in our hands. And we got beat by five field goals. It was rough to say the least.

Those immediately behind number 50 were anguish personified. They let loose an endless stream of foul language and it was hard to tell whether they were cursing themselves or cursing something else. My neighbours and I in the last third of the queue only felt a pang of disappointment whereas those who just missed out on the coupon were like people who see the duck that they had cooked flap its wings and fly away.

Ever since those days this has been the attitude with which I have always confronted life: from things too much waited for, too much embellished with anticipatory daydreams, there is in the end nothing I can do but run away.

Devant ce que j'avais si longtemps attendu, devant ce que j'avais par avance trop embelli au cours de mes rêveries; il ne me restait finalement qu'un seul recours : la fuite.

I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Suffering emerges because people fail to appreciate this. They believe that there is some eternal essence somewhere, and if they can only find it and connect to it, they will be completely satisfied. This eternal essence is sometimes called God, sometimes the nation, sometimes the soul, sometimes the authentic self, and sometimes true love – and the more people are attached to it, the more disappointed and miserable they become due to the failure to find it.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

If we demand a certain answer, we set ourselves up for disappointment, and if disappointment isn't arrested, it will soon lead to discouragement.