What in life is not disappointing?

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that…

— Bo Bennett

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

— Ang Lee

There's little in life so disappointing as a sunken cake.

— John Whaite

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

— Khaled Hosseini

But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same could be…

— Julie Klassen

“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self…

— Walker Percy

“Jill told him that he just didn't understand what it meant to have been so promising your whole life and now to be so…

— Meg Wolitzer

“How very disappointing truth is sometimes.”

— Ali Smith

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

— John Podhoretz

I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to…

— Geoff Dyer

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that…

— Robert Englund

I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was…

— Yasmina Khadra

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to…

— Emily Mortimer

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis