Disappointment Quotes

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

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

~ Scarlett Thomas

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

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

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

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

~ Tiger Woods

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

~ Evan Esar

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

~ Paul Wellstone