Disappointment Quotes

“For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

“The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It was completely - boringly - normal. Like meeting an online crush after months of e-flirting, the reality didn't live up to the fantasy. It was dull, predictable, and way more attractive in the photos.”
― Lisi Harrison, Monster High

“Marriage is a jewellery box which, by some mysterious opposite of alchemy, turns gold, silver and diamonds back into base metal, paste and quartz.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“It would have been too melodramatic, too final, to say that after this JB was forever diminished for him. But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had grown to trust might someday betray him anyway, and that as disappointing as it might be, it was inevitable as well, and that life would keep propelling him steadily forward, because for everyone who might fail him in some way, there was at least one person who never would.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Sometimes, knowing that there is no hope, we still hold on to the last remaining string of light inside our souls! And some other times, we let people go for the sake of watching them coming back to us!! We say we are leaving to see how tight they will hold onto us!
Dear Tia ..”
― Maria Zaky Sedky, Dear Tia

“I'd already met death three times now. So far the fourth was a big disappointment.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“If we can convince our own minds we aren't good enough, we can't really be disappointed when we don't get what we truly want.”
― Anthony Nerada, Skater Boy

“Things change. As they are meant to. Nothing remains the same. Not the flesh on my hands, nor the smile on his face.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“Aren't you afraid of failing? Letting everyone down?'
Esther thought about it.
'Maybe it's important that other people learn how to handle disappointment.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“Those who seek fame eventually find disappointment.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Every relationship is a finite disappointment. Sensuality is what gives it infinite hope.”
― Lebo Grand

“And what a strange emotion disappointment was to circumnavigate. It wasn't a mountain to climb, or a valley to trek. It didn't share the emotional highs that anger brought, nor was it low enough to wallow in depression. It was slow and stagnant, like a marsh on a moor. It sapped your will and made your legs tired. I knew it well.”
― Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends

“Every relationship is a finite disappointment. Sensuality is what gives us infinite hope.”
― Lebo Grand

“Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this was the universal human condition.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

“My myopic vision shackles my soul to the misery of small ideas.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I started asking a question that, after years and years of practice, has become almost instinct to me in times of disappointment and frustration: What tiny miracle is there buried beneath this disappointment? ...Miracle Hunters are relentless. And they understand the difference between expectations and being expectant. They look for tiny miracles everywhere but they stay open to being surprised by what exactly that miracle will look and feel like. They have cultivated what I call "Positive Paranoia" and believe that hidden within the disappointment, the failure, the unexpected change of plans, there is a nugget of a miracle just waiting to be discovered. ...The minute you start hunting for miracles, the entire way you see the world changes.”
― Liz Forkin Bohannon, Beginner's Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now

“What most philosophies are marketing is disappointment.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is never too much water under the bridge if the bridge is still standing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't let yesterday's disappointment determine your APPOINtment today.”
― Janna Cachola

“One day, a train will come to your station and take you to the place you've always dreamed of! And then you will see that the place you dreamed of is a complete disappointment for you! And then you will remember the beauties you did not appreciate of the station you left and want to return there - to the place you did not include in your dreams back then!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are too many people in the world today who decide to live disappointed rather than risk feeling disappointment.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“CHANGING THE WHEEL

I sit by the roadside
The driver changes the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why with impatience do I
Watch him changing the wheel?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the general rule.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“With Every Breath We Take

We face disappointment, heartbreak
and more. “Those no it all,” people
that walk in our door. How do we
bend when the branches won’t break?

With every breath we become
closer to the Lord. So, these challenges
in life are cast to the wind. We truly
have faith before each day begins.

This breath we take each day
erases any doubt, we’re unfazed by
situations that tear in our heart.
Thank you, Lord, for every breath.”
― Ron Baratono

“With Each Breath We Take

We face disappointment, heartbreak
and more. “Those know it all,” people
that walk in our door. How do we
bend when the branches won’t break?

With every breath we become
closer to the Lord. So, these challenges
in life are cast to the wind. We truly
have faith before each day begins.

This breath we take each day
erases any doubt, we’re unfazed by
situations that tear in our heart.
Thank you, Lord, for every breath.”
― Ron Baratono

“Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire”
― Mr. Lyndon Reece Akins, From Fear to Faith: Realize God’s goodness in spite of adversity

“A cock is organic, living, and pulsing. A cock, more often than one would hope, disappointed, but there was life behind it. A cock could feel you back.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“When you see a magical house, experience that magic to the fullest, because if you enter the house you may be disappointed, the magic may disappear! The same goes for people you admire!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I felt tired of the failures of men. They were always failing in the most basic ways, like looking down or away at the moment when they should be gutsy enough to meet your eye.”
― Percival Everett, James