Quotes About Disappointment

So this is it ? what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

They sat in silence. Feathers, Phoebe thought, searching in vain for some moment of her own that could rival the beauty and mystery of Faith's act. She felt a disappointment so familiar it was almost a comfort.

There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.

there are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me

You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now look at where the fuck we are

For years, struggling to raise the daughter she'd expected to have, she had failed to see the one she'd gotten.

Holy crap, my heart was arrogant to believe her spotless track record could stay that way.

Three Meatloaf Haikus Oh yucky meatloaf sitting under the hot lights so gray and gristly. Nothing tastes worse than you, not cauliflower or even lima beans. And what is that weird thing sticking out--a whisker? hair? a rubber band?

Papa, look," I said, waving the prize handkerchief in the air. "I won! I won first prize!" "Hmmph," he said, sounding unimpressed. "I'll be sure to have you stitch some flowers on the forehead of my next patient.

This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.

I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.

it took me years to realize that every piece of treasure he ever gave me was trash.

You knew, and you did it anyway. I will never forgive you for this.

People were fundamentally predictable. If you stopped expecting them to surprise you, they couldn't disappoint.

I stared at him--through the night, through the space between us. He looked away first. I was used to people walking away. I was good at not expecting anything from anyone.

You can't do this to me.You were the one who lectured me about living.You were the one who said I had to get out and see what was right in front of me and make the most of it and not wish my time away and find my mountain because my mountain was waiting, and all that adds up to life.But then you leave.You can't just do that.

I can't wait. I thought i could, but i can't. Sorry

The thing I need most in this world is a long, hot shower, but what I get instead is a trickle of warm water followed by a blast of Icelandic cold

Because it always ends the same, right? You have a good time and they have a good time and everyone's having fun, and then once the chase is over, suddenly they start chasing after someone else like you never existed. Besides, I like being me too much.

See, I excel at other, more important things—guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

On m'a soufflé mon dernier coin de soleil : C'est de la farce.

By God!  Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Ti si jedan od onih koje uvijek na?emo kad ih najmanje trebamo, a nikada kada ih trebamo.

I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie.