Disappointment Quotes

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,For each an imagined image bringsAnd finds a real image there...

Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life--one that must be dealt with.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

I came here for a party and what do I get? Nothing. Not even Ice cream.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,Even in the moment that we call them ours.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

Life is a great disappointment.

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.