Disappointment Quotes - Page 32

• There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

  Glenway Wescott

  Pain, Literature, Endure

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, School, Race

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• I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

  Eric Bana

  Years, Giving, Three

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Heartbreaking, Casting, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Self, Our Society, Belief

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• When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Children, Ambition, Missing

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• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Struggle

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Life is a great disappointment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

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• Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

  Jackson Browne

  Laughter, Glasses, Adages

  Song: The Only Child, Album: The Pretender

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• I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

  Terry Gross

  People, Trying, Watches

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• It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

  Ryan Hall

  Years, Beijing, Honestly

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• I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Writing, Stuff, Cleaning

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• None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Jobs, Loss, Careers

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• You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, Thinking, Age

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• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Dad, Waiting, Roles

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Tired, Past

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• To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.

  Sonya Walger

  Ideas, People, Dying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Atheist, Grateful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

  Trygve Lie

  Past, Rivers, East

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• I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

  Ben Marcus

  Mystery, Feels

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• I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Moving, Growth

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• If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Light, Sight, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Elderly, Expression

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Self Esteem, Ideas, Expectations

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• When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

  Christine Kane

  Dream, People, Choices

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