Top 46 Most Disheartening Quotes
#1. Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
Harry Houdini
#2. Among the most disheartening and dangerous of ... advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever ...
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#3. My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.
Ronald Reagan
#4. The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
Emma Goldman
#5. Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening.
John Green
#6. It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
Roxane Gay
#7. Sometimes I really hated people in general. I wanted to believe in the good that I knew existed in all of us, but it was so disheartening to see what happened when we let our bad over-rule that good.
J.M. Northup
#8. PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Ambrose Bierce
#9. I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#10. Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness.
Henri Barbusse
#11. When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
Judith Martin
#12. It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?
Monica Johnson
#13. Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
Sia Furler
#14. Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#15. The trip back from Pointe du Lac was thrilling. And the constant chatter of Lestat was positively the most boring and disheartening thing I experienced. Of course as I said, I was far from being his equal.
Anne Rice
#16. We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
Adoniram Judson
#17. I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring.
Carrie Brownstein
#18. I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
Gia Coppola
#19. I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
Trent Reznor
#20. Continue writing... No matter how difficult it is or how disheartening... never stop.
Ugochukwu Kingsley Ani
#21. I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.
Madonna Ciccone
#22. Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.
Drew Barrymore
#23. I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.
Moby
#24. You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven't done the things you wanted to do or become what you'd thought you'd become and it's disheartening.
Katja Millay
#25. For it is disheartening to inspire in a man the desire, and to take away from him the hope, of emulation.
Seneca.
#26. Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.
Paul Johnson
#27. I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
Tika Sumpter
#28. After a particularly disheartening day in my freshman year of high school, in which my arrogance had once again stirred up the insecurity of my classmates and driven them to acts of ill-concealed hostility,
Kate Mulgrew
#29. It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.
Fran Lebowitz
#30. Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa Cather
#31. For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.
Herman Melville
#32. It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.
Walter Mosley
#33. A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.
Hugh Dalton
#34. When there is no one there to cheer you on through it, or the right kind of therapy team, it can be very disheartening for people
Amy Rankin
#35. As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
Sylvia Day
#36. One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams.
And the silence deafens me.
Scott Hildreth
#37. How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.
David Markson
#38. To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#39. I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.
James Salter
#40. When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
Frank Miller
#41. I can't think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.
Daniel Willey
#43. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert
#44. Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
Mike McCready
#45. In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
Cat Stevens
#46. Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
Victoria Chang
