#disappointment

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #moroseness #russia #satire #sorrow

...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ... ↗

— John Geddes

#liar #lies #love #pain #poetry

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#marriage #marriage

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be. ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#disappointment #marriage #wedding #marriage

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River. ↗

— Trygve Lie

#disappointments #east #headaches #i #pack

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#around #astronomers #clouds #disappointed #disappointment

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#baseball #blame #day #disappointment #feel

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges. ↗

— George Foreman

#evil #lodges #lurks #where

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#blend #breakfast #disappointment #episodes #even