Disappointment Quotes

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,...

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, s...

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the d...

So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she ...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was ...

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one ...

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...

Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, t...

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events w...

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot...

You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then s...

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one ...

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we...

I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front...

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeym...

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both ...

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to...

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasant...

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected offic...

Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and b...

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistake...

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon thing...

In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's s...

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how y...

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not t...

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the...

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappo...

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stre...

...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom si...

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards...

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set...

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if wha...

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors....

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes a...

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it ...

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in l...

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to m...

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old ...

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment ...

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long tim...

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when the...

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments...

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of ...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner ...

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, o...

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what ...

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugge...

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

The time to prepare for life’s disappointments and hurts is in advance.

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. W...

Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself...

Disappointments are part of life; we can’t always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate...

I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him,...

Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, b...

Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, f...

Don’t be bound by the past and its failures. But don’t forget its lessons either.

[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us...

Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil ...

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for ...

Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of ...

The time to prepare for life’s disappointments and hurts is in advance.

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. W...

Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself...

Disappointments are part of life; we can’t always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate...

I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him,...

Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, b...

Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, f...

Don’t be bound by the past and its failures. But don’t forget its lessons either.

[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us...

Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil ...

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for ...

Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of ...

The time to prepare for life’s disappointments and hurts is in advance.