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Quotes About Disappointment

Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.
~ Ian Rankin
Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.
~ Ian Rankin
Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
~ Ian St. John
But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—
~ Unknown
Karma will do that to you, man—give you a little sliver of hope and then slam the door in your motherfucking face.
~ Unknown
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Patience: A support for the disappointed.
~ Idries Shah
Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. "The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Paciencia: un soporte para los decepcionados.
~ Idries Shah
La decepción no puede existir sin la expectativa. 'El damasco esperado nunca es tan dulce cuando llega a la boca.
~ Idries Shah
Se insisti a comprare cibo scadente, devi essere pronto a disgustarlo.
~ Idries Shah
En manos de los políticos, todo proyecto acaba en una antigua forma de infelicidad, ya no merecen nuestra entrega ni nuestra obligación.
~ Unknown
Was he really looking forward to it? They were usually a bit of anticlimax, these things. Stillit would do him good. Or serve him right
~ Colin Dexter
We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.
~ Colin Falconer
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
Disappointment be not there when one thinks by the will of The Divine.
~ Unknown
Reality always manages to make things much worse than that of which imagination can conjure.
~ Unknown
Je me suis trompé jusqu'ici; en voilà un qui est plus méchant. »
~ Comte de Lautreamont
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
~ Conan O'Brien
I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
~ Conan O'Brien
Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.
~ Conan O'Brien
Jung has pointed out that bitterness and wisdom form a pair of opposites. "Where there is bitterness, wisdom is lacking, and where wisdom is, there can be no bitterness." Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, he says. But wisdom is the comforter in suffering.
~ Connie Zweig
The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn't he?
~ Unknown
There are few things more frustrating than being forced to sit through a bad film with someone who thinks it's a masterpiece.
~ Craig Brown