Quotes About Disappointment

This isn't a baguette, it's shit.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I am disappointed by that stroke of death [Garrick's], which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

Take risks! At best you'll be disappointed and at worst you'll limit your opportunities.

If you don't expect gratitude you'll seldom be disappointed.' – Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist. 479 M41

You're searching for unicorns among mules.

neither for me honey nor the honey bee

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

People had let us down. People had broken our hearts. We liked books and animals and messy rooms full of things that weren't people.

Like most book people, there was a shadow in his face, a hollow echo in his laugh, that let you know he'd rather be around books than people. Who could blame him? It was why so many of us were in this business. People had let us down. People had broken our hearts. We liked books and animals and messy rooms full of things that weren't people.

I wasn't just wrong. I was wrong in such a vast and specific way that I felt like the punchline of a cruel joke.

Sometimes I don't get people. For people like Leon it was always someone else's job to bring the metal detector or the magnifying glass or pony up the fingerprint dust.

With every word it seemed to Mary that her hopes were crashing around her ears. She had secretly believed that she was living in a dream world but having her dreams shattered so suddenly by a cruel complacency was like the twisting of a knife in her too vulnerable heart.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

I have had not so good of a week.

Now I'm a failure twice over. Three times, actually, if we're counting personal and professional things, since my marriage failed, too. So, you see, staying with me might not be your smartest move.

She felt like Lady in Lady and the Tramp , one of Hanna's favorite movies as a kid. When Jim Dear and Darling had a new baby, they kicked Lady to the curb. Except Hanna didn't even have a scruffy bad-boy stray she could run off with because her supposed boyfriend was going to be hundreds of miles away soaking up sunshine on a nude beach with a skank.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.