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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
ERIC HOFFER, The Passionate State of Mind
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, letter to John Page, Jul. 15, 1763
Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.
MIKE HOWERTON, Miles to Cross
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.
VIRAMMA RACINE, Viramma: Life of an Untouchable
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.
THOMAS HARDY, James Gibson's Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Letter to Hester Thrale, Jun. 26, 1775
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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, Course of Popular Lectures
Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people’s needs. They can become self-centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.
ALICIA F. LIEBERMAN, The Emotional Life of the Toddler
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
FRED G. GOSMAN, How to Be a Happy Parent ... In Spite of Your Children
Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there.
EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE, The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.
- These slight disappointments are sent to prepare
- For what may hereafter befall;
- For seasons of real disappointment and care,
- Which commonly happen to all.
JANE TAYLOR, The Disappointment
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
- Disappointment is the common worm
- That feasts on all the fairest!
C. B. LANGSTON, "Disappointment"
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