Disappointment Quotes - Page 32

• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

  Victor Hugo

  Memories, Fire, Years

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• We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Frustration, World, Share

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, Expectations, Gaps

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, News

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• The new millennium sucks! What a disappointment! What's the difference between the old millennium and the new millennium? Nothing! It's the same load of crap with a '2' in the front. When I was a kid, I am old enough so that when I was a kid, I looked forward to the new millennium. When I was young, I said, 'I'm gonna live through a change! A massive change! Things are gonna be different! Things are gonna be great!' Screwed again! No flying cars! No flying cars!

  Lewis Black

  Kids, Flying Cars, Differences

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• It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

  Dane Cook

  Feelings, Pixar, Your Best Friend

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Eye, Wrinkles, People

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• Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Rejection

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• It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, Reading, People

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• I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard. And this character [Idi Amin], I worked particularly hard on. But I don't want to get too caught up in it, because first of all, it could lead to a great disappointment. You never know what's going to happen.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, People, Feel Good

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

  Dana Gould

  Girlfriend, Big Girl, Bigs

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• Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.

  Dov Davidoff

  Lying, Dating, Horrible

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 22, 2011

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• Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.

  Tina Barney

  Jobs, Divorce, Loss

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• For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Joy, Negative

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• Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

  James Franco

  Dream, Dark, Broken

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• What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

  Katherine Center

  What Matters, Matter, Response

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.

  Liam Howlett

  Baby, Thinking, Energy

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• My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change.

  Jimmy Carter

  Teaching, Loss, Boys

  "President, Peanut Farmer and Sunday School Teacher". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ego, Enlightenment

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.71, Hay House, Inc

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• Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.

  Henry Rollins

  Good Night, Goodnight, New Day

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• Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

  David Hume

  Grief, Circles, Giving

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.13

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• 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

  Insecurity, Skiing, Outlets

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• Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

  Emmet Fox

  Causes, Ultimate

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• Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Character, Gains

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• If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Writing, Two, Pie

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