Quotes About Disappointment

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache!

Why should i expect yes cos everything i get no

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

What happens to a dream deferred?

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.