Disappointment Quotes - Page 15

• Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

  Emily Giffin

  Forgiveness, Heart, Pride

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.757, St. Martin's Press

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• Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Hysteria, People

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

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• Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

  George Orwell

  Law, Long, Details

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Desolation, Hopefully, Arrivals

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• Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

  Alyson Noel

  Mistake, Party, Lessons To Be Learned

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• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  Lisa See

  Love, Dream, Careers

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Frustration, Needs, Four

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Self, Mind, Nerves

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Heart, Eye, Going Away

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• Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade. "You got someone better coming over?" Wade asked him. "Pizza," Tag said.

  Jill Shalvis

  Doors, Looks, Wade

  Jill Shalvis (2010). “Slow Heat”, p.214, Penguin

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• Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

  Fred Rogers

  Relationship, Strong, Real

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• if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

  Robin Hobb

  Waiting, Firsts, Endure

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1647, Del Rey

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• She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.

  Tami Hoag

  Children, School, Years

  Tami Hoag (2009). “Deeper Than the Dead”, p.104, Penguin

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• Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Angel, Silence, Let It Go

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• To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Grief

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Hands, Skins

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• Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.

  Tamora Pierce

  Envy, Feelings, Favors

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• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Love Is, Expression

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• I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Motivational, Athlete, Careers

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• The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

  "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Mistake

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• Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Unique, Opportunity, Drawing

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• Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Thinking, Bigs

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

  Anton Chekhov

  Path, Stills, Whole

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ambition, Life Is, Achieve

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