Disappointment Quotes

“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, Reached

“I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not”
― Laura Taylor, Intimate Strangers

“He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.”
― Pete Wentz, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

“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, Consequences

“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

“...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...”
― john geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.”
― Silvia Hartmann

“Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.”
― Taryn Plendl, In My Arms

“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.”
― James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still

“People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.”
― Charmian Hussey, The Valley of Secrets

“What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.”
― Sydney J. Harris, The Best of Sydney J. Harris

“He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“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, Little Children

“It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairy tale in the world.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice

“Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.”
― Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

“I hear he liked flowers pretty well."
"Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."
--"Out, Brief Candle”
― Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

“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, Born in Fire

“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, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats are often seen as worthless―even failures―because we dream of greater gain. Our greed keeps us focused on a gleaming pot of gold waiting at the end of some elusive rainbow. And, despairing a big loss, we fail to see the value in small achievements.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

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

“I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.”
― Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.”
― Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent

“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, Capital