Disappointment Quotes - Page 38

• Our disappointment sits between us.

  Charles Bukowski

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• I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

  Amy Tan

  Children, Pain, Emotional

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Discovery, Sea

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• I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, People, Firsts

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.136, Penguin

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• Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Passion, Unlikely, Spokes

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Hurt, Growing Up

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• I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Thinking, Long, Hills

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• Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Character, Adversity

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.35, Jester House Publishing

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• In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

  Francine Rivers

  Purpose, Lord, Wanted

  Francine Rivers (1994). “An Echo in the Darkness”, p.270, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Destiny, Discovery, Greater

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows”, p.178, Zondervan

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• Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

  Obert Skye

  Obert Skye (2009). “The Wrath of Ezra”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Drinking, Years, Shoes

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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• no expectations, no disappointments!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Expectations, Upset, African American

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Chasing Destiny”, p.123, Penguin

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• Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

  John Piper

  Husband, Love Is, Two

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• Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

  William Goldman

  Used, Knows, Consequence

  "The Princess Bride", 1987.

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• Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart: Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright, And fright him as the morning frightens night!

  John Keats

  Sweet, Morning, Heart

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

  John Flanagan

  Dying, Bears

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• Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Hands, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

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• It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

  Barbara Mertz

  Pessimist, Optimist, Sensible

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• The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

  Stefan Zweig

  Loneliness, Stress, Heart

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.15, Pushkin Press

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• If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Attitude, Fear, Fall

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.21, CLC Publications

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• Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

  Joss Whedon

  Firsts, Married, Sin

  "Dollhouse (A Spy in the House of Love)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009–2010.

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• A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Challenges, Sorrow, Facts

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• Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Kissing, Night, Love Is

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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