Disappointment Quotes - Page 37

• Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Determination, Tasks, Talent

  Bryce Courtenay (2010). “The Power Of One: Popular Penguins”, p.775, Penguin UK

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Pride, Tears

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Sightseeing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2006). “The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Reading, Creating

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

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• If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

  Anthony Swofford

  Hurt, People, Use

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

  Bill Watterson

  Calvin And Hobbes Friendship, Harder, Swear

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• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Heart

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

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• I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Two, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Mean, Eye, Storm

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Work Out, Focus

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• It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.

  Joel Osteen

  Strong, Past, Knowing

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• She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

  Markus Zusak

  Change, Time, Night

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.259, Random House

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• If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

  Larry McMurtry

  Everyday Things, Healthy, Gentleman

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kids, Parenting, Inspire

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Growing Up, Hate

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Loneliness, Book, Guarantees That

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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• If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hands, Hopelessness, Empty

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• A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)

  Rhonda Byrne

  Dark, Past, Mind

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Names, Desire, Wish

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

  Italo Calvino

  Believe, Book, Expectations

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.4, Random House

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• We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

  Philip Yancey

  Reality, Thinking, Example

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.149, Harper Collins

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• It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

  Jane Green

  Thinking, Perfect, Slim

  "Jemima J".

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• Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Selfish, Grief

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jobs, Character, Adversity

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