Disappointment Quotes
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"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life."
"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams."
"Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love."
"Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty."
"We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it."
"My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history."
"Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?"
"Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life."
"What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties."
"Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again."
"I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you."
"It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul."
"I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has."
"The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it."
"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it."
"I really rarely meet someone with quality like this:has great expectation and persistent efforts to earn it,yet also had a high immunity against disappointment.Jarang sekali aku bertemu orang dengan kualitas seperti ini:memiliki harapan besar dan upaya gigih untuk mencapainya,namun juga punya kekebalan yang tinggi terhadap kekecewaan."
"Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire."
Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
"Disappointments are often my greatest motivation."
"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
"Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can kill their hosts. Disappointment is a deadly companion. We didn't yet know how many of us would end up in its grip, because we were all still striving, and some of us thought we were thriving."
"Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were."
"I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not"
"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
"Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’."
"Find a way to learn something from every disappointment."
Laurie Nadel, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
"I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change."
"You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed."
"I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—is gratitude."
"Happiness changes the way you see the world."
"I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained."
"Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred"
"disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;"
"Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes."
"God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear."
"People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment."
"To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut."
"Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed."
"If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead."
"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."
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