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Quotes About Disappointment

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else.
~ Jean Kerr
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
~ Charles Stanley
A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals.
~ C. Elizabeth
You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
~ Karen Salmansohn
I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
~ Bob Hope
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
~ Curtis Jackson
I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
~ Vince Staples
No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.
~ Megan Abbott
For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday and he still forgot to bring me something.
~ Tanya Noe
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
~ David Hume
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
~ David Williamson
You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.
~ Rajneesh
I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.
~ Wendell Berry
I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.
~ Wendell Berry
knowing how she was wrung all her life between her cherished resentments and her fierce affections. A peculiar sorrow hovered about her, and not only for the inevitable losses and griefs of her years; it came also from her settled conviction of the tendency of things to be unsatisfactory, to fail to live up to expectation, to fall short.
~ Wendell Berry
They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.
~ Wilbur Smith
Samantha was just tired and angry enough not to take it. "And I'm a woman. You didn't expect that either," she agreed. "It's a crying bastard, isn't it? But then, I bet some of your best friends
~ Wilbur Smith
Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing: these are the three stages of the pessimist.
~ Will Durant
I have had my dream—like others— And it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly With feet planted on the ground, And look up at the sky— Feeling my clothes about me, The weight of my body in my shoes, The rim of my hat, air passing in and out At my nose—and decide to dream no more.
~ William Carlos Williams
the sills of their disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly for the most part, locked and forgot in their desires—unroused.
~ William Carlos Williams
You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
~ William Faulkner
and he then you will remember that for you to go to harvard has been your mothers dream since you were born and no compson has ever disappointed a lady and i temporary it will be better for me for all of us and he every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another mans wellbeing and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was The last note sounded. At
~ William Faulkner