#Disappointment Quotes

“Friendship is full of dregs.”

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

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

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

“How my achievements mock me!”

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me”

“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?”

“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?”

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

“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.”

“In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on”

“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?”

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

“I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.”

“Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.”

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

“Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.”

“This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

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

“At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.”

“It is often our best friends who throw us down.”

“Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

“Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.”

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

“I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

“He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality”

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

“I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”

“Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.”

“I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.”

“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 wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.”

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.”

“Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.”

“I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.”

“Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.”

“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.”

“I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.”

“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.”

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

“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”

“When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!”

“You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.”

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

“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”

“Life is a great disappointment.”