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Quotes About Disappointment

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
~ Dustin Hoffman
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
~ Abu Nuwas
Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.
~ Russell Brand
Everything in life has let me down.
~ Richey Edwards
Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.
~ Spalding Gray
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
~ Bill Watterson
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.
~ Nastia Liukin
Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.
~ Doreen Massey
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
~ Jason Mraz
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent
~ Robert De Niro
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
~ Minnie Pearl
The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
~ Robbie Fowler
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
~ George Eliot
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
~ Hermann Hesse
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
~ Jeanne Calment
I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.
~ Terry Gross
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
~ Walter Raleigh
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
~ Euripides
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
~ Jacob Bronowski