Dissapointment Quotes

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.”
― Jane Green, Swapping Lives

“I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.”
― James T. McCay

“Happiness is the most tired word in any language.”
― Erol Ozan

“They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.”
― Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

“I'd never been a big fan of disappointment.”
― Michelle Rowen, Primal

“Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“If I tell you not to follow me, it ain't because I hate you, kiddo.
I just don't want you feel dissapointed...when seeing the truth.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“People start to lie more once they start to care less.”
― Rain Cooper

“Can't even feel dissapointed when seeing
heaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I release the throwing knife as something I can't place deflates in my chest. It sinks like disappointment.

It breathes like relief.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“The hunger for believing in good things, usually turns up as starvation.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“Each time something more interesting than you turns up— at work, a person, an opportunity—he will ignore you again. The disappointment each time this takes place can be paralysing. I presented the idea of being “enough.” Always remember, you are more than enough, always have been, always will be. The narcissist also never feels like he is enough, so he is always seeking attention and affirmation from the outside. If he is never enough, then no one else is either, but he is not aware of this dynamic. It would be an entirely different experience if he sat with you and said, “I am very empty, and I will never feel like I am enough, so I know that I will always treat you like you are not enough, even though you are.” If your partner had that level of insight, then he would not be narcissistic.”
― Ramani Durvasula, Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist

“–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?
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–I don’t know. Could be.
–The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to get. The men who don’t get the promotion they expected. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. These men can’t be left to mix with the rest of society. Something bad always happens.”
― Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard, his feelings swelling up into the bitterest kind of rage. [...] An ingenious moralist, preoccupid by how illogical our destinies appear to be, once explained it by hypothesizing that men are like portrairs: the ones who have only their head and shoulders depicted seem larger than they could really have been in life, while others practically disappear, shrunken and reduced to looking like dwarves by the absurd size of their portrait's frame. [...] Back then, people thought he would either kill himself or go mad. He did not kill himself, and his mind stayed whole. He did not go mad. But then, that was because he was mad already, said the jokers—for there are always jokers. But although he did not kill himself—and, given his nature, his comrades chose not to ask him why he did not—he was not the kind of man to let his heart be eaten by a vulture without at least trying to break the vulture's beak.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques

“It's a lot easier to blame someone else when things go wrong than it is when your decisions have terrible consequences.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“We all have someone in our lives that has disappointed us a time or two, someone that no matter what they do you still try to love them through it" I just stare down at our joint hands. "The boys' dad, our son Benjamin he…" she squeezes my hand "he loves the boys in his own way" I look up into her face, but she's looking past me at Ry and Jase. "It was hard to watch those two grow up without either of their parents around for them and we tried to make up for it. To be what they needed, but every time we taught them new things or helped them with their homework or even attended their sporting events; every single time I saw the boys faces fall in disappointment. I felt that I felt disappointed towards my Benjamin."

I tighten my grip on her hand, knowing it must not be easy to admit out loud. "We all have a weak spot; their dad was ours. Until he wasn't until he couldn't be anymore.”
― Sarah Clay

“There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.”
― Palinurus, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

“Never learn to love someone untouchable. They'll only disappoint you in the end.”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

“During the months of winter and spring King Casmir looked only twice at the infant princess, in each case, standing back in cool disinterest. She had thwarted his royal will by coming female into the world. He could not immediately punish her for the act, no more could he extend the full beneficence of his favor.
Sollace grew sulky because Casmir was displeased and, with a set petulant flourishes, banished the child from her sight.
Ehirme, a raw-boned peasant girl, and nice to under-gardener, had lost her own infant son to the yellow bloat. With an amplitude of both milk and solitude she be came Suldron's wet-nurse”
― Jack Vance, Suldrun's Garden

“I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can hear the sound of a victory parade. I can see the clouds of uncertainty dispersed, the valley of despair exalted, the mountain of obstacles brought low and the crooked path of disappointments made straight. Surely, these times have an expiry date. When they are gone, as they always do, I shall remain - stronger and more experienced.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“love doesn’t seem to be all that i expected it to be, i’m always chewed up, spat out, let down”
― K.M. Simpson, sheer

“That's the signal... Transmitter.”
― Steven He

“A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“At times the people who've hurt us cannot give us the bandages to heal ourselves. But through own healing, they can reflect on their actions and self correct; and without us lifting even a finger. It's a strange way how the human dynamics work at times.”
― Mitta Xinindlu