Disappointment Quotes

I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no disappointments, no hurting myself, just being me and my imaginative self. Trust me because, when I have expectations, I am setting myself up for disappointment.

~ Muhammad Usman Aman

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.

~ Keith Laumer

I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and sat in the shade of sadness to let the dark moments pass by.

~ Balroop Singh

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

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

~ Sylvia Plath

I'm the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest.

~ Marilyn A. Hepburn

I think most Christians hear these urgent calls to do more (or feel them internally already) and learn to live with a low-level guilt that comes from not doing enough. We know we can always pray more and give more and evangelize more, so we get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.

~ Kevin Deyoung

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

~ Timothy Schaffert

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

~ Phillip Gary Smith

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

~ William Blake

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.

~ Toba Beta

Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires.There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime.It's where we could live.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.--Mon Semblable

~ Stephen Dunn

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom White City

~ Shane Macgowan

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

~ Tonya Hurley

...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...

~ L.m. Montgomery

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

~ L.m. Montgomery

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

~ Abigail Biddinger

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

~ Sara Barnard

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

~ Paige Toon

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

~ Laurence Overmire

One always expects something else.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

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

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

~ ;Marcel Proust

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

~ Charmian Hussey

Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.

~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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

~ Umberto Eco

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

~ Sherwood Anderson

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all led to disaster. Being alone was better than shattered and broken like mother: disenchanted with the life she’d been forced into.

~ Callie Hunter

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we'd go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

~ Jennifer Egan

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.

~ Andrew Levkoff

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 near achievable....

~ Gagabriel

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.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.

~ Craig Ferguson