disappointment

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call Walter Dalton a pathetic fairy, but it was thin milk, this form of nourishment; it could not change that you had wanted to be a concert pianist and ended up a real estate lawyer, that you had married a woman and stayed married to her for thirty years, when she did not ever find you lovely in bed.

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

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

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

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.

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

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It__ easier to find fault with a disappointment.

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

First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.

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

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

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

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

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