Disappointment Quotes - Page 34

• There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ducks, Office, Real Talk

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Sadness

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

  Stephen Dunn

  Love You, Thinking, Desire

  Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Philosophy, Stress, Adversity

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Heart, Compassion

  "Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

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• Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

  Joss Whedon

  Firsts, Married, Sin

  "Dollhouse (A Spy in the House of Love)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009–2010.

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• A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Challenges, Sorrow, Facts

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• Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Kissing, Night, Love Is

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

  Alyson Noel

  Doors, Track, Waiting

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• For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Jesus, Humanness Is

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Passion, Reality, Curiosity

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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• It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Teaching, Believe

  "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

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• One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?” Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. “How far back did you trace me?” “Far enough.” A pause. “You didn't answer my question.” “And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments.

  Nalini Singh

  Teenager, Puff, Answers

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.52, Penguin

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• All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Matter, No Matter What

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• A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.

  Tina Fey

  Ambition, Engines, Combustion

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!

  Joko Beck

  Gossip, Greed, Criticism

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• I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Believe, Today

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to.

  Jennifer Estep

  Strong, Past, Finals

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• A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

  Miriam Toews

  Uncles, Dad, Week

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sympathy

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.3149, Delphi Classics

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• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Compassion, Average, Sorrow

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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Sex, America

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• We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.

  Susan Jeffers

  Eye, Expectations, Missing

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.135, Random House

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• there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Fall, Thinking, Spirit

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