DISAPPOINTMENT QUOTES III

quotations about disappointment

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

The Illusion of Separateness


Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.

ALICIA F. LIEBERMAN

The Emotional Life of the Toddler


There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo


For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


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

P. G. WODEHOUSE

attributed, Love Stinks


Frequent disappointments teach us to mistrust our own inclinations, and shrink even from the vows our hearts may prompt.

JUNIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

MICHAEL CHABON

Wonder Boys


No dreams = No dreams crushed
No hope = No hope is false
No expectations = No disappointment
No reason to go on

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY

"Negative Outlook", Eye for an Eye


Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

REGINA MARIA ROCHE

The Children of the Abbey


All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


WHAT is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can. Anticipation is her herald, but Disappointment is her companion; the first addresses itself to our imagination, that would believe, but the latter to our experience, that must.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon: Or


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.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Jane Eyre


Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

JODI PICOULT

My Sister's Keeper


Disappointment is to a noble soul what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys.

ELIZA STEPHENSON

St. Olave's


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

The World According to Mister Rogers


Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Letter to Hester Thrale, Jun. 26, 1775


Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there.

EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship


It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

MAX FRISCH

"First Notebook", I'm Not Stiller


Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

SIR BAYLE ROCHE

attributed, Day's Collacon


You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda