Disappointment Quotes

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent.

Tom Perrotta

...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

John Geddes

Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

Pat Conroy

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human

MKF - Screwed Life

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.

Femi Olalekan Erejuwa Komolafe

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

David Levithan

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

J.K. Rowling

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Sarah Ruhl

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

Kate Atkinson

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.

Nora Roberts

I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.

Alyson Hagy

So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.

Jonathan Safran Foer

While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired and miserable about all the things that Denys should have said and done and hadn't. At the end of the dance there was one awful moment when she was bored. She didn't want to go and be kissed in the garden, she didn't want to drink any more, and Denys was in no mood for conversation; what was there to do? She was bored. It was a terrible, treacherous thought to feel like that when you were with someone you loved.

Monica Dickens

Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to this city's asylum, suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a madness of anticipation, disappointment and delusion.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice?....u've been DISSAPPOINTED

DonRichie

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down on him. He made it clear that Shahid was one of these disappointments.

John Lanchester

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Bill Watterson

I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

Ally Condie

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

Pete Wentz

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain de Botton

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

Aleatha Romig

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

John Ortberg

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Joan D. Vinge

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

Marty Rubin

I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.

Harley Mei Kent

We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.

Alfred Hayes

If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. It’s a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a jury and condemned by a judge…all three being you. We imprison ourselves when we allow outside negative circumstances and people dictate who we are. You can dwell in that cell…but only you can exonerate you. ~Jason Versey

Jason Versey

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Ambrose Bierce

Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.

Heenashree Khandelwal

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.

Joe Dunthorne

The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

Ron Brackin

it's weird how we try our best to build our lives , and then we simply fall in love with the wrong person who destroys everything we happen to give years to build and the real problem is sometimes we don't even mind!

O.R. girl

She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.

Thomm Quackenbush

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.

Thomas Hardy

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.

Laini Taylor

It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always…a disappointment.

Alethea Black

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

Scarlett Thomas

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.

Star trekek The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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.

Shannon L. Alder

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

Thomas Hardy

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fannie Flagg

...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.

John Williams

Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!

Laurence Stuart

I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

Jane Green

The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

Karen Swallow Prior

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

Veronica Roth

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call Walter Dalton a pathetic fairy, but it was thin milk, this form of nourishment; it could not change that you had wanted to be a concert pianist and ended up a real estate lawyer, that you had married a woman and stayed married to her for thirty years, when she did not ever find you lovely in bed.

Elizabeth Strout

First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.

Lord Crunkington III

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

Robert J. Braathe

Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.

Kathleen Rice Adams

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.

Christina Baker Kline

It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.

Lindsay Armstrong

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

Rashida Jones

Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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