Quotes About Disappointment

She retreats to a sad but oddly comforting and familiar place inside her head where she hides when others let her down (as they tend to do) and takes comfort in books and music. She is an expert in self-protection and defence; she has been in training for much of her life.

Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American.

We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

So this is what it is to be a failure. The chief characteristic may be silence: the phone doesn't ring, he isn't asked out, nothing new happens. For must of his adult life he has conceived of failure in the form of a spectacular catastrophe, only to recognize, at last, that it has in fact crept up on him imperceptibly, through cowardly inaction.

Pronouncing a lover "perfect" can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

It may be a sign that two people have stopped loving one another (or at least stopped wishing to make the effort that constitutes ninety per cent of love) when they are no longer able to spin differences into jokes. Humour lined the walls of irritation between our ideals and the reality: behind every joke, there was a warning of difference, of disappointment even, but it was a difference that had been defused - and could therefore be passed over without the need for a pogrom.

True beauty is indeed the one thing incapable of answering the expectations of an over-romantic imagination.…

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

People disappointed; animals never did.

You were supposed to be free [...] That was all I had to give you.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

Fair enough, you have managed to successfully swindle me, and so I will never work for you again.

He looked around, waiting for a reply, then shrugged and looked down at Vex. "You need better friends." "He's not my friend.

Oh, my dear, you wound me. Have I ever let you down?" "Numerous times." "I meant today." "Then, no. You haven't. That I know of.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

Attainment of desirable states brings joy, failure to do so becomes sorrow.

Asshat! You Darth Vadered me!" (Delaney to Rowan)

First, living in community cannot erase buried emotional pain. When people find that after living in community they're still yearning for something valuable and elusive (although they may not know what it is), they tend to feel angry and disappointed.

Dar de asemenea la acea ora de indoiala am jurat in adancul sufletului meu ca voi lupta, aducandu-mi partea mea (poate partea leului) cu toata rabdarea posibila, ignorand toate dezamagirile si descurajarile, chiar daca eram sortita sa fiu invinsa in final.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.