Disappointment Quotes

Tried a lot, but can't find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn't take long to find out that it's a recipe for disappointment.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud, but we end upmaking them cry, and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers, at best

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.

I'm the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

One always expects something else.

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air.These people do not live at my house.

Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

I was the one thing he had to deny-- the beautiful truth within his terrible lie.-who knew such a young heart could shatter?

I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.

It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

These days people are so mean that they even try to get rid of their shadows sometimes.

It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.