Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Disappointment

• Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Disappointment, Years, Three

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

• 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, Disappointment, Light

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

• Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Disappointment, Eternity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.169, 谷月社

• Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Disappointment, Opportunity, Grasping

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.34, See Sharp Press

• predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Disappointment, Stage, Disillusion

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

• Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Disappointment, Moving

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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