Disappointment Quotes

Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.

~ R. N. Prasher

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

~ Callie Hunter

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful. And conceived that love had no lastingness, it was brief and momentary. It wasn’t the cherishable sensation spoken of in movies and written in books, rather a delusion inclined on ruining the very spirit, giving way to mournfulness and disappointment.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God grant me the strength to endure all things.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to try again when you failure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every successful person had experience failure but they overcome with courage and adamant hope

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will conquer every mountain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

~ Widad Akreyi

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,...

~ Dodie Smith

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

~ John Piper

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction.

~ Diana Jaber

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

~ Criss Jami

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.

~ Jodi Picoult

Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

~ Ben Marcus

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

I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

~ Robin Wasserman

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

~ Daniel Willey

Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it’s blown, opportunities take to their heels!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every time, I am lost and said a little prayer, I divine force, reach out to help me find my way.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt...and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up! Do you understand that? Because of you, the entire universe is ruined...forever!--Kari, The Pavilion

~ Craig Wright

When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

~ Haruki Murakami

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)

~ Konrad Zuse

In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You might start quoting your mother, out loud and with conviction. You might lose your friends to the most uninspired of deaths. You might one day wake up and find yourself teaching at a community college; there will have been nothing to warn you. You might say things to your students like, There is only one valid theme in literature: Life will disappoint you.

~ Lorrie Moore

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

~ John Geddes

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

~ Scarlett Thomas

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

~ Amanda Craig

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.

~ Joseph Conrad

Human existence is a penal colony; a sexually transmitted disease; a disappointment; nothing but suffering; “a sky-dive: out of a cunt into the grave”; a one-way ticket to the crematorium. “Nobody gets out of here alive”. Every day is a grim passage, a struggle through moments and hours of loneliness, boredom, emptiness, and self-loathing. I count myself among the pessimists. I believe that life is suffering. I force myself (my contraself) to look at other positions, but this remains my default. More specifically, I am a depressive realist.

~ Colin Feltham

Disappointment and Depression are terrorists that kidnap people's original peace for no good reason. The Holy Spirit of God is a dependable army to drive them away! May you be free from being disappointed and depressed. May you have and share peace as long as you live!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe, it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

…while God does listen, knowing what He knows about us, and how well we take disappointment, often he'll find a way to save us all the heartache and trouble we unwittingly plead and beseech and continually pester him for; ever a loving, wise Father, he will just simply answer, “no,” by default, by not answering “yes.

~ Connie Kerbs