Let Down Quotes

“Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend.
I might also pretend to not let you down.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Love might be frightening, at times, and some are scared of becoming infatuated. Therefore, they may rather choose to chicken out, while walking on thin ice, poise and guts are letting them down. (“Amour en friche”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you down, you need to realize that it is not them who have let you down, but it is only your expectations that were not met.”
― Pinkie Numa

“What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.”
― Sydney J. Harris, The Best of Sydney J. Harris

“In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.”
― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading

“She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you’re inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Being emotionally undercut by some friends, can feel like a physical uppercut to the chin, when deep down you just weren't ready for it, again.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I don't know where you've gone this time
But if you don't come back
You're going to have to leave.”
― Kate McGahan

“Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“He was always worrying about me – even when we were kids. If I scraped my knee or fell off my bike, he was the first one to help me up and make sure Mom got a Band-Aid.”
“I remember.” I smile. “He was the quintessential big brother.”
“He was. But that’s just it – he’s not here to protect me anymore, Anna. And you don’t have to be, either. I know I let stuff get crazy. I didn’t mean to be like that – it just kind of happened. You couldn’t have changed that. I – it was something I had to go through myself.”
My throat tightens. “I felt like I let him down,” I say. “All that stuff with smoking and Johan and Jake – I didn’t take care of you. I couldn’t even keep that one simple promise.”
“Anna, my brother died. There’s no way you could protect me from that. It’s up to me, now. I let him down. I let me down.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“In a million years of falling off, humans never realised that maybe the pedestal isn’t made for their kind.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“I felt tired of the failures of men. They were always failing in the most basic ways, like looking down or away at the moment when they should be gutsy enough to meet your eye.”
― Percival Everett, James

“And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine

“Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Never let down your life companion even you think you are right; you are, both the dignity of each other life, just compromise and forget differences, for a happy life.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Graduating after twenty- five years at Community College was a personal triumph for me. I couldn't let myself down again.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“I let myself down a million times," she confessed.
"We all do that. It is getting back up that defines your character, Julija, and you did that.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Illusion

“Of course she could have just dropped the length of hair down, but she liked getting it to sail through the air, unraveling its coils prettily as it went, a silver streak in the sky like a rain cloud spun into yarn. The end of the braid, soft and fringed like the tail of a fairy-tale donkey (the only kind Rapunzel knew), just brushed the ground before falling back against the tower with an incredibly satisfying thwack.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“It is Normal to have Chimp outbursts and activity that you will not manage well. Therefore, you should Expect this to happen from time to time. Accept that you are not perfect and this animal is very powerful. Take care of the outburst or activity by appropriate means, such as apologies if you have affected others, or by forgiving yourself if you feel you have let yourself down.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Never once in the history of receiving good news has someone ever replied, “It’s okay. I understand.” Those words are reserved for when someone has let you down. I should know.”
― Sandra L. Rostirolla, Making Friends With Monsters

“Curiosity bit deep, but Nesta said nothing. Vassa- she hadn't seen the enchanted human queen since the war had ended. Since the young woman had tried to speak to her about how wonderful Nesta's father had been, how he had been a true father to her, helped her and won her this temporary freedom, and so on and on until Nesta's bones were screaming to get away, her blood boiling to think that her father had found his courage for someone other than her and her sisters. That he'd been the father she had needed- but for someone else. He had let their mother to die in his refusal to send his merchant fleet hunting for a cure for her, had fallen into poverty and let them starve, but had decided to fight for this stranger? This nobody queen peddling a sad tale of betrayal and loss?

The thing deep in Nesta stirred, but she ignored it, pushing it down as best she could without the distraction of music or sex or wine.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“You need someone, eventually they let you down and you end up feeling like a real doofus.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“When people let you down young in life, you develop hyper-independence, meaning you struggle to ask for help.”
― S.D.G., Naked