quotations about disappointment
People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Chess Story
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
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
Disappointment is the common worm
That feasts on all the fairest!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Disappointment"
Have you ever heard the sound of disappointment?
It tangles your head like a winter rose.
Comes up eager and shining
And it likes to leave a scar before it goes.
EURYTHMICS
"Here Comes That Sinking Feeling", Would I Lie to You
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
PAULO COELHO
Brida
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Comedians
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
ALAIN DE BOTTON
attributed, Emotional Intelligence Pocketbook
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
The Lady of Lyons; Or
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
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
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.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
JEAN COCTEAU
Diary of an Unknown
A pier is a disappointed bridge.
JULIAN BARNES
Flaubert's Parrot
Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, ever turn sour.
WILLIAM WEST
Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings
All things end in disappoinment.
E. M. ARCHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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
Care of the Soul
In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment -- we are all defined by something we can't change.
SIMON VAN BOOY
The Illusion of Separateness