Disappointment Quotes - Page 5

• Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

  Anthony Powell

  Children, Years, Parent

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Firsts, First Time, Terrible

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Real, Wish, Real Ones

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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Voice, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

  Laurence Overmire

  Life, Acceptance, Expect Nothing

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• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Hope, Scar, Fulfillment

  Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

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• There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Careers, Emptiness

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Silence, Dull, Welcome

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Today, Bitterness

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2016

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• Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Pain, Communication, People

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• Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Honest

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• Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

  Abigail Adams

  Unhappiness, Arise, Notion

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.5

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• I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Tim Matheson

  Ups & Downs, Settings, Setting

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Tears, Film, Bearable

  "The House in Paris".

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• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Attitude, Expectations, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

  Angie Stone

  Giving

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• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Hair, Source

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• You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Eight, Know It All, Seventies

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Powerful, Growth

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.392

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• One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

  Alain de Botton

  Protection

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Eye, Differences

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Track, Car, Ruins

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiring, Failure, Creativity

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