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Quotes About Disappointment

I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned.
~ Catherine Sanderson
Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.
~ Judith Viorst
It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.
~ Emily Giffin
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
~ Jean Cocteau
But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.
~ Katharine Brush
It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
~ Myrtle Reed
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
~ George Eliot
She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.
~ Greg Behrendt
I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.
~ John Mayer
He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.
~ Marcel Proust
Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
have had the best intentions?' Leonora gave him a cold look. 'He said one of the reasons for marrying me
~ Betty Neels
Bad luck that my first glimpse of Venice was marred by an insult.
~ Beverle Graves Myers
Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.
~ Beverly Cleary
Being kissed by Gerhart was disappointing. I had expected a kiss to feel more like the time in Yamhill when I stuck my finger in the electric socket, only nice.
~ Beverly Cleary
For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...
~ Beverly Cleary
There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.
~ Beverly Cleary
Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturing they hungered for, only to be disappointed. But our partners are not our parents, no matter how much we try to make them into parents. No one can make up for the deprivation you experienced, and no one should be expected to.
~ Beverly Engel
The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.
~ Bill Bryson
In the evening I dined in the hotel's restaurant and bar, and afterward sat nursing Mack beers at fifty øre a sip, thinking that surely things would liven up in a minute. It was New Year's Eve, after all. But the bar was like a funeral parlor with a beverage service.
~ Bill Bryson