disappointment

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.

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

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

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

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

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.

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

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.

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.

The thing about me is _ essentially, I__ a coward.I am. I can__ stand weird stuff, anything that__ not normal. [_]I__ a coward, and I__e faced it, and I__e learn to accept it. And I__ okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don__ think my parents know this about me. [_]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

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

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

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

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

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.

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

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