Disappointment Quotes

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.

~ Sarah Dessen

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

~ Upton Sinclair

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

~ Gustave Flaubert

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

~ Alain De Botton

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground

~ Jamie Mcguire

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.

~ Sherwood Anderson

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 derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted -- confidence destroyed!

~ Charlotte Brontë

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

~ Marina Keegan

My feelings for you run very deep. - LoorNot deep enought, I guess. - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

~ D.j. Machale

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

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.

~ Julian Barnes

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

~ Willem Lange

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.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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.

~ Jane Austen

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

~ Michael Chabon

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

~ Graham Greene

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.

~ J.m. Coetzee

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

~ Oscar Wilde

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

~ Ava Gardner

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.

~ Amy Petrie Shaw

Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

~ Maggie Nelson

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..

~ Ehddah

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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.

~ Tony Kushner

I was the one thing he had to deny-- the beautiful truth within his terrible lie.-who knew such a young heart could shatter?

~ Amanda Lovelace

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.

~ Kristen D. Randle

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.

~ Abby Fabiaschi

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.

~ Haruki Murakami

It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.

~ Elliott Holt

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

~ Bryn Greenwood

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.

~ Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

~ Hanya Yanagihara

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.

~ Peter May

I am sorry, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

~ Chinese Fortune Cookie

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

~ Stephen King

These days people are so mean that they even try to get rid of their shadows sometimes.

~ Neetesh Dixit

It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.

~ Xo

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.

~ Matt Abrams

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

~ Cyc Jouzy