Disappointment Quotes
This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.
No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.
Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.
She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.
Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.
First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.
If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.
It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.
Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?
Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.
I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.
Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.
He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.
She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.
Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.
You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.
The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.
Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!
Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences.
How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.
I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.
I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.
...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...
We may have agreed to end it kitty, but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human
As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you’ll avoid disappointment…!
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.