Quotes About Disappointment

In my dreams I have lived a promise that no waking day has ever kept.

If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.

Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.

I'm passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn't go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying.

The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

It's obviously very tough for any team to lose on penalties.

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.