Disappointment Quotes

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.

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.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

Regret fills your heart, only if you do not give your best to accomplish something.

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

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.

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.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

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.

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.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.