Quotes About Disappointment

Chi è deluso da Dio è deluso dagli uomini. Chi reclama un Dio onnipotente sogna uomini senza libertà.

Man's happiness today consists in "having fun." Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and "taking in" commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?

The color of a polar bear's skin? Is? In fact? BLACK!" she cried. Some passengers cheered, but several looked crestfallen. "I'm so sorry," an older man implored his wife. "I really did think it was pink." "I know you did, honey," said his wife morosely, peering into her empty glass.

Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

What's fascinating about this list is that ten people with a a slew of medals among them decided that the two most important determinants of mental toughness - believing you can achieve a goal and having the ability to pick yourself up after you fail - have nothing whatsoever to do with performance and everything to do with persevering through doubt, disappointment, and other forms of discomfort.

The people you care about most, care the least for you. That is why I'm just a number to you even though you are my world.

that were not the case. Unfortunately, there is

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.

oui, à chaque pas dans la vie, on rencontre une déception, une désillusion, une humiliation.

Ä°nsan özlemini çektiÄŸi sevinçlere ulaÅŸamad??? zaman s?k?l?r.

Visiter les lieux de son enfance, c'est une pratique masochiste. On cherche à être déçu et, pas de surprise, on l'est.

Minimifidian (n.) A person who has the bare minimum of faith (in something). To the minimifidian the secret to happiness lies in the doctrine of lowered expectations. Which is not the worst way to go through life; it's hard to be disappointed when you never expect anything. Minionette

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.

I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted.

It was like when a midde-aged woman, happily married, found out that her favorite movie star was gay. It broke her heart just a litte to know that there wasn't even a chance in fantasyland for the two of them to ever touch.

I mean, I'm not going to spare your feelings, Dad - I wanted to be his frickin' chocolate bunny today, but, really he popped a couple of jelly beans and said, 'This isn't right' and walked away. I mean, I think he was starving for chocolate bunny - but he walked away. Who does that?

How do you explain the bone-deep knowledge that this thing you con for, lie for, cheat for, ain't never gonna

Keep dreaming, my man. I used to dream I was going to be a veterinarian." Crispin gasped. He hadn't known this. "Really? Why didn't you?" "Because I couldn't put an animal down.

Set the table. The vegetables are overdone. The chicken's dry. Dinner is ruined. Let's eat.