Disappointment Quotes

Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.

~ Amit Pandey

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

~ Alice Munro

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

~ Samuel Rutherford

No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.

~ Diana Jaber

Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.

~ Pawan Mishra

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

~ Michelle Madow

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

~ Pawan Mishra

By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!

~ Harrykrishna

By the time, another disappointment reaches me .... I'll be buried!

~ Harrykrishna

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

~ Douglas Brinkley

He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.

~ Jack London

What do you know about insurance fraud?”I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.

~ Roberta Pearce

Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze.

~ Carlos Wallace

I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

~ Jane Green

The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

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

~ Veronica Roth

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call Walter Dalton a pathetic fairy, but it was thin milk, this form of nourishment; it could not change that you had wanted to be a concert pianist and ended up a real estate lawyer, that you had married a woman and stayed married to her for thirty years, when she did not ever find you lovely in bed.

~ Elizabeth Strout

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

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

~ Robert J. Braathe

Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.

~ Kathleen Rice Adams

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

~ Christina Baker Kline

It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.

~ Lindsay Armstrong

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

~ Rashida Jones

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.

~ Lauren Dane

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

~ Katie Kiesler

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .

~ John Daniel Thieme

How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

~ Rufi Thorpe

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

~ Harold S. Kushner

Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.

~ Ainslie Hogarth

Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.

~ Lorrie Moore

I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.

~ Harley Mei Kent

We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.

~ Alfred Hayes

If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. It’s a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a jury and condemned by a judge…all three being you. We imprison ourselves when we allow outside negative circumstances and people dictate who we are. You can dwell in that cell…but only you can exonerate you. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.

~ Joe Dunthorne