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Quotes About Disappointment

There can be nothing worse for a man when he realize that he married the wrong woman.
~ Unknown
You will never get disappointed if you do not desire what you do not deserve.
~ Unknown
Your life can get better if you realize it is better never to expect anything from anyone, not even from God.
~ Unknown
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Whenever we meet disappointment and sickness and trouble, my boy, let us thank Him for having brought us this hour, and let us not forget meekness, for it is written: 'On this man will I look, even on him who is poor and sorrowful and who trembleth at My word.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
According to Theo, he is definitely making a name for himself. But we are under no illusions, and are only too grateful that he is having some slight success. You don't know what a hard life he has had, and who can say what is still in store for him. His disappointments have often made him fell bitter and have turned him into an unusual person.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The rest certainly must seem damn bad." And the days when I bring home a study I say to myself - If it was like this every day, we might be able to get on; but the days when you come back empty-handed, and eat and sleep and spend money all the same, you don't think much of yourself, and you feel like a fool and a shirker and a good-for-nothing.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I spoke with my father after reading this book and he wryly recalled the tremendous hope that his generation had had from the 1971 election. They really believed that "garibi" would be "hataoed". Of course, nothing of the sort transpired.
~ Unknown
You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.
~ Virginie Despentes
[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.
~ Vladimir Nabakov
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
~ W. C. Fields
Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.
~ W. C. Fields
The timid and the fainthearted, and people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales?
~ W. H. Auden
You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.
~ Sarah Silverman
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
~ Oscar Robertson
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
~ Sylvia Plath
Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
~ Norm MacDonald
Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.
~ Charlie Viracola
All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.
~ Reince Priebus
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
~ Unknown
I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.
~ Steven Magee
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
~ Lionel Shriver