Disappointment quotes

318 disappointment quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytimeTV for...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Tom Cruise - Vincent
    [Tag:disappointment, dreams, time of life]
  • “One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped.”
    Nigel Hawthorne - Rodney Fraser
    [Tag:affection, disappointment, self-esteem]
  • “I think, Junior, if your daddy knew how stupid you were, he'd trade you in for a pet monkey.”

    Steven Seagal - Jack Taggart
    [Tag:disappointment, insult]
  • “Five o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no bicycle. It was a disappointing Christmas on many levels.”
    Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
    [Tag:christmas, disappointment, relatives]
  • “I used to think that men went gray because they had stressful jobs with stressful decisions to make. Now, I think it happens when men start to feel in their bones that the great moments of their lives... might not turn out to be quite as great as they'd always hoped. When the real world starts creeping in. What separates the believers like Glen...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Scoot McNairy - Sean Cullen
    [Tag:aging, disappointment, life, reality]
  • “The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside myself and everyone else. But guess what? Sunday's my favorite day again. I think of what everyone did for me, and I feel like a very lucky guy.”
    Bradley Cooper - Pat
    [Tag:disappointment, gratitude]
  • “- Nick Parker: Hal, come here. We have to talk
    - Annie as Hallie: Okay shoot.
    - Nick Parker: Okay, honey... I want to know what you think about making Meredith part of the family?
    - Annie as Hallie: Part of our family?
    - Nick Parker: Yeah.
    - Annie as Hallie: I think it's an awesome idea. Inspired. Brilliant really.
    - Nick Parker: You do? Really?...” (continue)
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    Dennis Quaid - Nick Parker
    Lindsay Lohan - Annie James
    Lisa Ann Walter - Chessy
    [Tag:disappointment, fear, marriage]
  • “That look like hockey to you? To me it looks like two monkeys trying to hump a football.”
    Kurt Russell - Herb Brooks
    [Tag:ability, disappointment, sport]
  • “This is what we fought all night to get back to?”

    Michael Beck - Swan
    [Tag:disappointment, home, safety]
  • “I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you, kisses that I thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. I used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. But now I know you don't mean any of it.”
    Liv Tyler - Faye Dolan
    [Tag:disappointment, kiss, relationships]
  • “Years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”
    Rufus Sewell
    [Tag:acting, career, disappointment]
  • “Figures, hot on the outside, icycle in the middle. Two minutes.”

    Pauly Shore - Stoney Brown
    [Tag:disappointment, food, misunderstanding]
  • “I walked in the bathroom, and in the middle toilet right there... somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really,...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker
    [Tag:disappointment, maturity, shit]
  • “Don't admire people too much. They'll disappoint you sometimes.”
    Donald Sutherland - Calvin
    [Tag:admiration, disappointment, people]
  • “You are such a disappointing pair. I prayed so hard for you. It saddens and hurts me that the two young men whom I raised to believe in the Ten Commandments have returned to me as two thieves, with filthy mouths and bad attitudes.”

    Kathleen Freeman - Sister Mary Stigmata
    [Tag:christianity, disappointment, swearing]
  • “Sex? I can't even say the word... not that I was ever really into it, but... when you don't have any and there are no prospects, well, it's very upsetting!”
    Diane Keaton - J.C. Wiatt
    [Tag:desire, disappointment, sex]
  • “- Ernie: Mr. Carson's last year as team owner, he must be really depressed.
    - Bob Carson: Oh boy, Fish, look a decoder ring... I got it out of the Cracker Jack box... look it fits on your finger.
    - Larry 'Fish' Fisher: Yeah, yeah, that's great, Uncle Bob.
    [whispers to assistant]
    - Larry Fisher: That man is turning into a cracker jack.”

    Andy Berman - Ernie
    Eddie Bracken - Bob Carson
    Dan Hedaya - Larry 'Fish' Fisher
    [Tag:depression, disappointment]
  • You know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down at you, he had but one hope: "someday, my son will grow to be a man". Well look at you now; you just got your asses whipped, by a bunch of goddamn nerds.
    John Goodman - Coach Harris
    [Tag:disappointment, father, hope]
  • - Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and... (continue)(continue reading)
    George Peppard - Paul Varjak
    [Tag:disappointment, fear, love]
  • “- Kittridge: I can understand you're very upset.
    - Ethan Hunt: Kitridge, you've never seen me very upset.
    - Kittridge: All right, Hunt. Enough is enough. You have bribed, cajoled, and killed, and you have done it using loyalties on the inside. You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in...” (continue)
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    Henry Czerny - Kittridge
    Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
    [Tag:disappointment, killing, rage]
  • “You got yourself a distraction that needs dealing with.”

    Chris Mulkey - Frank
    [Tag:criticism, disappointment, job]
  • “- Gabi Silva: I think we're going to get bored of each other.
    - Martin Hallock: That's okay. You know, bored is okay.
    - Gabi Silva: We're going to resent each other, too.
    - Martin Hallock: We'll remind each other why we're worth it.
    - Gabi Silva: I will disappoint you.
    - Martin Hallock: I will disappoint you.
    - Gabi Silva: You promise?
    - Martin...” (continue)
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    Laia Costa - Gabi Silva
    Nicholas Hoult - Martin Hallock
    [Tag:disappointment, promises, relationships]
  • “I trusted you, loved you, and you betrayed me!”

    Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur
    [Tag:cheating, disappointment, trust]
  • “Never meet your heroes.”
    Christina Ricci - Marilyn Thornhill
    [Tag:disappointment, heroes]
  • From the TV Series: Dexter
    “Never underestimate the capacity of other people to let you down.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:disappointment, people]
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