Disappointment Quotes - Page 7

• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Love, Children, Age

  Bruno Bettelheim (1988). “A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-rearing”, Vintage

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• I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Giving, Risk, Chance

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Moving, Transition, Signals

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• A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

  Julian Barnes

  Dream, Bridges, Long

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Passion, Names, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1892, Delphi Classics

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• I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Prejudice, Causes, Humans

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Disappointing, Knows, Ifs

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Giving Up, Eye

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

  Paul Wellstone

  Believe, Frustration, Political

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• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

  Frances Wright

  Courage, Ignorance, Decide Upon

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.31

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• All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

  John H. Johnson

  Worthwhile

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• OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Light, Outcomes

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Heart

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• Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Dream, Actresses

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• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Betrayal, Loss, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

  John Mason Brown

  Happiness, Heart, Journey

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• Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

  Madame de Stael

  Long, And Love, Glory

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• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Irritation, Feelings

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Pressure, Peers, Rage

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• A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Children, Heart

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stage, Disillusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Running, Pumpkin, Mice

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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

  Robert Genn

  Teacher, Abandonment, Wells

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• Lightly I sped when hope was high
  And youth beguiled the chase,--
  I follow, follow still: But I
  Shall never see her face.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Faces, Youth, Sped

  Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188

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• Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wind, Encounters, Prosperity

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.49, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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