disappointment

In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she__ hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all led to disaster. Being alone was better than shattered and broken like mother: disenchanted with the life she__ been forced into.

If I__ surprised at where I__ at, it__ probably because I__ not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I__e listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.

She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you__e inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you down, you need to realize that it is not them who have let you down, but it is only your expectations that were not met.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

One always expects something else.

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don__ welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

...__h, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,_ exclaimed Anne. __ou mayn__ get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, __lessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed._ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed._...

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?""To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said."To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice.