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Quotes About Disappointment

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
~ William Shakespeare
Hope is the raw material of losers.
~ Fernando Flores
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
~ Gary Marcus
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
~ Walter Scott
endless hope, endless disappointment.
~ Cassandra Clare
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
~ Abraham Cowley
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
~ Iris Murdoch
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
~ Abraham Cowley
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
~ Walter Scott
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
~ Aimee Bender
Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
~ Obert Skye
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.
~ Kim Carnes
I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
~ Kathy Bates
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
~ Ben Marcus
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
~ John Green
He didn't liehe just gave her false hopes~
~ Tanya Gambhir
When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
~ Yasmine El Rashidi
One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.
~ Daleen Van Tonder
In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
~ Joseph Roux
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
~ Proverbs
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
~ Elon Musk