Disappointment Quotes

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

~ Fred Rogers

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

~ Scott Turow

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

~ Thomas Moore

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

~ Stefan Zweig

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

~ Haruki Murakami

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

~ Patricia Mccormick

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.

~ Vannary Rang

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

~ Laurie Nadel

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

~ Simon Van Booy

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

~ Vann Chow

I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness changes the way you see the world.

~ Auliq Ice

This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—is gratitude.

~ Auliq Ice

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

~ Kate Chisman

My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

~ Karen Quan

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

~ Alexander Pope

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.

~ Perry Moore

I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.

~ Frank O'hara

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

~ Mary Karr

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

~ Bill Willingham

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible

~ ;Graham Greene

I really rarely meet someone with quality like this:has great expectation and persistent efforts to earn it,yet also had a high immunity against disappointment.Jarang sekali aku bertemu orang dengan kualitas seperti ini:memiliki harapan besar dan upaya gigih untuk mencapainya,namun juga punya kekebalan yang tinggi terhadap kekecewaan.

~ Toba Beta

Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.

~ Teresa Schultz

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

~ Paula Hawkins

Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.

~ Charlotte Brontë

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

~ Anthony Swofford

I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

~ Stephen Dunn

I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

~ Stephen Dunn

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

~ Ann Patchett