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 ConroyTag: disappointment routine repetition drudgery
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
Oscar WildeTag: disappointment niagara
Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.
Rachel AbbottTag: despair marriage disappointment wedding
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
Tag: friends nature creativity flowers disappointment
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.
Athol FugardTag: life people god religion universe law disappointment life-lesson people-suck laws-of-the-universe
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. GoodrichTag: friendship friends hope prayer disappointment dandelions richelle imaginary-friends richelle-goodrich
Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: despair hope disappointment richelle annabelle maybe richelle-goodrich annabelle-fancher
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 MooreTag: gay disappointment failure awkward
I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.
Perry MooreTag: love hope unrequited-love disappointment failure
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
David LevithanTag: hope disappointment goodbye good-bye
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