Stephen Dunn Quotes

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know how good you could've been in that role.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.