“You should've seen her face. It was the exact same look my father gave me when I told him I wanted to be a ventriloquist.”— Tom Leopold, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“She’s the nice girl who’s afraid to love you because she doesn’t want you to be like the rest of them. She doesn’t want you to be another disappointment, another let down.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don't stop yourself from being upset. That's not your inner demons. Just you. You are human and allowed to be upset.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“You can only push someone away so long before they realize that the hurt and disappointment and lonely nights were not worth it.”— Abigail Jacks, thoughtcatalog.com
“‘Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go?’‘Maybe because I don’t really believe that it’s going to work and then I make sure that it doesn’t work.’”— Anna and Oliver, Anna and Oliver, imdb.com
“It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a [person] and you know [they’re] not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.”— Bruno Mars, npr.org
“One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.”— Jarod Kintz, amazon.com
“perhaps the saddest of all are those who live waiting for someone they’re not sure exists”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“So here’s my question: when you lose the most important person to you in the entire world, where is all the love – love you never even knew you were capable of – supposed to go?”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“My mother nearly murdered me over that, then made me live with my father. So I couldn't review my exam notes, which were at home. Because of that, I got beat out of graduating valedictorian by a quarter of a grade point and lost my dream of getting a scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University. It w…”— Bettie Page, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don’t you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”— Saul Bellow, amazon.com
“She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.”— Michelle Madow, amazon.com
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I really do think the crown and glory of the Sex Pistols is that we've always managed to disappoint on big occasions. When the chips were down, we never came through. We were so bad, it was gloriously awful, as it should have been.”— John Lydon, latimesblogs.latimes.com