Disappointment Quotes - Page 3

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.

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up. 

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.

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

It takes so little... to lose it; grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.
Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn't want to be - a disappointment.

. . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

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.

I hear he liked flowers pretty well."
"Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."
-"Out, Brief Candle

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.