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“The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.”
“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.”
“Then again, I had become a disappointment. Its easier to find fault with a disappointment.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“Most empty promises are a result of excitement.”
“How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?”
“Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.”
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
“Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what the...”
“Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.”
“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.”
“This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.”
“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin”
“I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.”
“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 hur...”
“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.”
“One of the speechless situations is when the people you admire, people you follow, people you look forward to standby you and support you, people you are dedicated towards and people whom you consi...”
“Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.”
“If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. Its a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a...”
“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.”
