If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions. But I'm sure that in the end he would have taken it with a grain of salt and moved on. That's the lot of all true visionaries, who don't see the use of working in the same vein as everyone else. Artists like Kubrick have minds expansive and dynamic enough to picture the world in motion, to comprehend not just where its been, but where it's going.
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.
Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you. " The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be. . . scarier.
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long hair, and everyone is too pretty. Theres so much pressure on this one show, the first of its kind, to represent every dyke or lesbian in the world. But [lesbian viewers] are not going to be disappointed, because by the end of the first season [there are] a lot of diverse characters.
When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.
[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities. . . maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?