Disappointment Quotes - Page 36

• 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

  Romance, Anxiety, Danger

  "Do I Love My Wife? An Investigative Report" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Eye, Knowing

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

  Janet Fitch

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Intelligent

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

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• I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

  Richard Russo

  Good Woman, Terrible, One Thing

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• My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

  Eudora Welty

  Pain, Book, Character

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• There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ducks, Office, Real Talk

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Sadness

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

  Stephen Dunn

  Love You, Thinking, Desire

  Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Philosophy, Stress, Adversity

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Heart, Compassion

  "Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

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• Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Sound, Cold

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• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Acceptance

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• Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Love, Spring, Fall

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

  Amy Carmichael

  Passion, Fire, Flames

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• My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

  Tom Robbins

  Desire, Climate, Easy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.132, Bantam

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• At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Mother, Feet

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.64, Candlewick Press

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• He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Lunch, Beef, Afternoon

  Mary Gaitskill (1988). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, Poseidon Press

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• I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Greatness, Long

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• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Shadow, Bitterness

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

  Joseph Heller

  Envy, Achieve, Numbing

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Successful, Two

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Loss, Desire, Bears

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Ego, Enlightenment

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