Top 100 Quotes About Disappointment
#1. It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person.
Deborah Levy
#2. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#3. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#4. I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
William Howard Taft
#5. I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
John Burnside
#6. If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.
Gemma Chan
#7. For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods
#8. There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
#9. I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.
Tiger Woods
#10. The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.
Gamaliel Bailey
#11. Which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace.
Marcel Proust
#12. Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.
Tony Robbins
#13. All leaders have to live with disappointment at some point or another. If I have to learn that lesson early, I won't enjoy it, but I will do my best not to let you down.
Joelle Charbonneau
#14. We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment.
Michel Houellebecq
#15. Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#16. 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
#17. It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.
Susan Juby
#19. Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.
Vikas Swarup
#20. Her face reflecting the color of her dress, she glowed even in her disappointment ... perhaps the way of her defiance to the fate.
Madhu Vajpayee
#21. There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
Roger Ebert
#22. I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
Anne Roiphe
#24. I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.
Semir Zeki
#25. People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
Isaac Asimov
#26. There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.
Billy Graham
#27. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
#28. Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.
Jon Stewart
#30. I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Gary Numan
#31. To demand promises is to invite disappointment -Hester
Jonathan Auxier
#32. I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
Famke Janssen
#33. Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas
#34. When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.
Phil Collins
#36. We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
Shane Claiborne
#37. But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
Susanna Kearsley
#38. Our studies consistently show a large majority of people leave their church's service without feeling as though they have connected with God. If those who regularly attend depart with such disappointment and confusion, what must it be like for those who are new to the church adventure?
George Barna
#39. Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Emma Willard
#40. According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.
Cammie McGovern
#41. This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.
Julia Green
#42. I crossed across the Ocean called Hate, to find the Sea of Love. But to my disappointment i found it nowhere. I cherish the moment of love i had before but too faded for now. Ages passed to find it again in my new Life.
Debolina
#43. There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I claim it begins in disappointment.
Simon Critchley
#44. You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
Wole Soyinka
#45. Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.
George C. Lorimer
#46. When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
Pema Chodron
#47. And sometimes it takes disappointment to remember that this world is not our home.
Emily T. Wierenga
#48. What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
Graham Greene
#49. I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
Lindsey Vonn
#50. When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.
Joel Osteen
#51. Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.
Daisaku Ikeda
#52. They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I'd been elected, the projection of their own inner hell.
Donald O'Donovan
#53. The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.
Fulton J. Sheen
#54. I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.
Barbara Delinsky
#55. The only thing that serves to distinguish us, outwardly at least, is that Silvers stand tall. Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.
Victoria Aveyard
#56. There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
Michael Chabon
#57. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
#58. So how do you make your exit?" she asked. "In a puff of smoke? Or do you just vaporize?"
He grinned at her. "Much as I hate to be a crushing disappointment to you, I reckon I'll just take the door.
Justin Somper
#59. Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
Henry Ford
#60. From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.
Alex George
#61. I don't mind a little disappointment now and then. It just means you've got high standards. I'd rather shoot high and be disappointed sometimes than just live in the middle with the illusion of being satisfied.
Priscilla Glenn
#62. Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true
Doreen Virtue
#65. Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
John Surtees
#66. Tears spilled won my cheeks as I felt renewed disappointment. "You keep hurting me."
He had the decency to look guilty. "I don't mean to.
Samantha Young
#67. I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.
Ronaldo
#68. I was thinking about how temporary disappointment can be if you don't linger on it too long and how there are beautiful things in the world if you look. It's up to you to find them for yourself.
Marc Maron
#69. We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
LZ Granderson
#70. Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.
-Hellhound
Robin McKinley
#71. The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.
Billy Corgan
#72. Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
Charles Dickens
#73. Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.
Kathryn Harvey
#74. The best way to handle pain and disappointment is to bury oneself in work.
Preeti Shenoy
#75. But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
R. J. Anderson
#76. What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
Willem Lange
#77. Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
Quentin Blake
#78. He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret ...
Kathryn Stockett
#79. Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
Emily Giffin
#80. Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us
both.
Aziz Ansari
#81. The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
Leonard Boswell
#82. Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
John Barrow
#83. There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.
Helen Fisher
#84. What I'm saying is, without hope, there could not be disappointment." The
Stacey Lee
#86. Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
Dwight L. Moody
#87. bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's
Douglas E. Richards
#88. I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
Paul Watson
#89. Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.
Alexis Jones
#90. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.
Christine Downing
#92. The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow ...
Ezra Taft Benson
#94. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all - sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.
Ilona Andrews
#95. I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
Sonya Hartnett
#96. Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Abigail Van Buren
#98. A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognize it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#99. My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#100. I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect
Jane Green
