Philip Roth Quotes

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?