Disappointment Quotes - Page 2

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. tThere are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .

John Daniel Thieme

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?

Rufi Thorpe

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

Harold S. Kushner

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.

Ainslie Hogarth

Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.

Lorrie Moore

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.

Matt Abrams

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

Cyc Jouzy

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

Amit Pandey

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

Jen Pollock Michel

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.

Alice Munro

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

Samuel Rutherford

No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

Diana Jaber

One of the speechless situations is when the people you admire, people you follow, people you look forward to standby you and support you, people you are dedicated towards and people whom you consider self made and respectable, stand helpless in front of you when others cut you into pieces.They keep standing, they fumble, they are helpless.And you're just disappointed

Himmilicious

Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.

Pawan Mishra

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

Michelle Madow

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

Pawan Mishra

By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!

HarryKrishna

By the time, another disappointment reaches me .... I'll be buried!

HarryKrishna

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

April Mae Monterrosa

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Douglas Brinkley

He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.

Jack London

What do you know about insurance fraud?”I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.

Roberta Pearce

Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze.

Carlos Wallace

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

J.M. Coetzee

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

Oscar Wilde

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Ava Gardner

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.

Amy Petrie Shaw

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

Maggie Nelson

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..

ehddah

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

Joyce Rachelle

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.

Tony Kushner

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

Amanda Lovelace

The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

Kristen D. Randle

My husband has never been one to catch the subtleties of a situation. He called every Valentine's Day to ask if I wanted him to stop on the way home to get a card. Every year I said no, don't bother, and he'd say something like, "Okay, but I want to go on record I asked, so you can't say I'm not romantic." I never did point out that any chance the gesture had of being romantic was lost when he asked whether he had to do it.

Abby Fabiaschi

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.

Haruki Murakami

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

Elliott Holt

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

Bryn Greenwood

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.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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

Hanya Yanagihara

How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.

Peter May

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

Stephen King

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

Neetesh Dixit

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Sarah Dessen

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

W.B. Yeats

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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

Gustave Flaubert

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

Alain de Botton

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

Jamie McGuire

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

Eliza Tabor Stephenson

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

Sherwood Anderson

DisappointmentCan do a couple things.It can drop you into a giantsucking sinkhole ofdepression,a place you have to fightto climb out of. Or itcan trigger an epicmaniato overcome the oddsand transform failureinto success. Say youswingas high as the chains willtake you because you seekthe thrill of flight, and on theup-kick, you lose your seat.Injury is likely. But if youworry about fallingdown,and never chance "up,"the sky will remainforever out of reach.

Ellen Hopkins

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted -- confidence destroyed!

Charlotte Brontë

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

Marina Keegan

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