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Quotes About Disappointment

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
~ David Ogden Stiers
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.
~ Paulo Coelho
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
~ Gloria Steinem
I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.
~ Paul Kengor
Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.
~ Harry Truman
At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.
~ Heather James, Fire
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~ Teresa of Avila
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~ Teresa of Avila
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
~ Johanna Spyri
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
~ Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
~ Anne Lamott
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.
~ George R. R. Martin
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.
~ Gerald Vann
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.
~ Drake
I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.
~ Taylor Swift
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
~ Leo Buscaglia
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
~ Caleb Carr
Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
~ Gillian Flynn
Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.
~ Frank Zappa
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
~ William Penn
He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.
~ William Sansom
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
~ William Scranton