Emily Giffin Quotes

Get used to disappointment.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Losing sucks. I don't think most people understand how bad it feels.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

It sucks when you lose.

I had a lot of emotional days at Chelsea, some that did not really end well, especially in the Champions League.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

I experienced great sadness with our elimination from the 1990 World Cup, with many penalties. I still have that feeling of injustice in me.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.