Quotes about disappointment
Fred G. Gosman -
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Haley Joel Osment -
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Susan Cain -
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Lindsey Vonn -
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
Marti Noxon -
For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.
Monica Lewinsky -
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!
Sanjo Jendayi -
Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.
Debasish Mridha -
Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness disappointment is sadness.
M.F. Moonzajer -
When we confuse the needs with the desires all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment.
Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes
We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
A pier is a disappointed bridge yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
Chinese fortune cookie -
I am sorry I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.
Andrew Levkoff - A Mixture of Madness
I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
gagabriel -
i felt like i was wanting you more than ever..I want to fall asleep with the pure sound of your heart beat, wrapped around your warm arms, feeling your skin against mine and wake up with the sound of your sweet voice and a beautiful smile on a saturday morning.I want to kiss you from head to toe and drown in your carefree laughI want the entirety of you and love you endlessly.....when i wake up this morning and pondered of my wantsit break my heart to realise that my simple wants are nowhere nea
Sarah Dessen - Someone Like You
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
W.B. Yeats -
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Eric Hoffer -
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Upton Sinclair -
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin
Alain de Botton -
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
Jamie McGuire - Beautiful Disaster
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground
Eliza Tabor Stephenson -
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
Sherwood Anderson - Ohio
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.
Ellen Hopkins -
DisappointmentCan do a couple things.It can drop you into a giantsucking sinkhole ofdepression,a place you have to fightto climb out of. Or itcan trigger an epicmaniato overcome the oddsand transform failureinto success. Say youswingas high as the chains willtake you because you seekthe thrill of flight, and on theup-kick, you lose your seat.Injury is likely. But if youworry about fallingdown,and never chance "up,"the sky will remainforever out of reach.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not
Marina Keegan - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
D.J. MacHale -
My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)
Carol Rifka Brunt - Tell the Wolves I'm Home
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
Willem Lange -
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Graham Greene - The End of the Affair
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
J.M. Coetzee - Summertime
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
Oscar Wilde -
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
Ava Gardner - Ava: My Story
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
Amy Petrie Shaw - The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings
Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air.These people do not live at my house.
Maggie Nelson - Bluets
Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.
ehddah -
What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..
Joyce Rachelle -
Frustration often steers you to the right path.
Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls
Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.
Tony Kushner - Angels in America
It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.
Amanda Lovelace - The Princess Saves Herself in this One
I was the one thing he had to deny-- the beautiful truth within his terrible lie.-who knew such a young heart could shatter?
Kristen D. Randle - The Only Alien on the Planet
The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.
Abby Fabiaschi - I Liked My Life
My husband has never been one to catch the subtleties of a situation. He called every Valentine's Day to ask if I wanted him to stop on the way home to get a card. Every year I said no, don't bother, and he'd say something like, "Okay, but I want to go on record I asked, so you can't say I'm not romantic." I never did point out that any chance the gesture had of being romantic was lost when he asked whether he had to do it.
Haruki Murakami - West of the Sun
I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.
Elliott Holt - You Are One of Them
It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.
Bryn Greenwood - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - The Nest
People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong
Peter May -
How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.
Stephen King - Wizard and Glass
Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.
Neetesh Dixit -
These days people are so mean that they even try to get rid of their shadows sometimes.
Xo - Doc
It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.
Matt Abrams - She's Toxic
Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.
Cyc Jouzy -
Most empty promises are a result of excitement.
Amit Pandey - The Retro Man
Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.
Jen Pollock Michel - Ambition & the Life of Faith
Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
Alice Munro - Lives of Girls and Women
This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.
Samuel Rutherford -
Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
Diana Jaber -
What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.
Himmilicious -
One of the speechless situations is when the people you admire, people you follow, people you look forward to standby you and support you, people you are dedicated towards and people whom you consider self made and respectable, stand helpless in front of you when others cut you into pieces.They keep standing, they fumble, they are helpless.And you're just disappointed
Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.
Michelle Madow - Diamonds are Forever
She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.
Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
HarryKrishna -
By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!
HarryKrishna -
By the time, another disappointment reaches me .... I'll be buried!
April Mae Monterrosa -
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.
Douglas Brinkley - Cronkite
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
Jack London - Martin Eden
He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.
Roberta Pearce - Famous Penultimate Words
What do you know about insurance fraud?”I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.
Carlos Wallace - Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze.
Jane Green - Summer Secrets
I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect
Karen Swallow Prior - Abolitionist
The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.
Veronica Roth - Allegiant
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call
Lord Crunkington III -
First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.
Robert J. Braathe -
If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.
Kathleen Rice Adams - Prodigal Gun
Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.
Christina Baker Kline - Orphan Train
It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.
Lindsay Armstrong - The Seduction Stakes
It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.
Rashida Jones -
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!
Lauren Dane - Once and Again
Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.
Katie Kiesler - Because I Love You
Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
John Daniel Thieme - paulinskill hours and other poems
. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .
Rufi Thorpe - The Girls from Corona del Mar
How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?
Harold S. Kushner - Overcoming Life's Disappointments
Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)
Ainslie Hogarth -
Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.
Lorrie Moore - Like Life
Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.
Harley Mei Kent -
I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.
Alfred Hayes - In Love
We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.
Jason Versey - A Walk with Prudence
If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. It’s a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a jury and condemned by a judge…all three being you. We imprison ourselves when we allow outside negative circumstances and people dictate who we are. You can dwell in that cell…but only you can exonerate you. ~Jason Versey