Disappointment Quotes

“Someone once told me that just because you can’t have the life you wanted, you shouldn’t give up and fade out of existence. That’s how we become living ghosts—by never moving on.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the City of Gold

“There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.”
― Martin Scorsese

“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life enticed you to love it. It lured you on with the sweet, terrible music of happiness. Life told you: Love, Get Married, Work, Hope, Pray, Put Everything on My Altar. And in the end it abandoned you without a backward glance...”
― John Bemrose, The Island Walkers

“The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Cuan fecundo en decepciones es el mundo!”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It hurts my heart that doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people. I wanted it to be for myself. But I was still doing it for other people”
― Simone Biles

“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.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four

“I know who I am. I want to know who I was supposed to be.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“If you go through life trying to please other people you will disappointed. However, if you go through life enjoying what you do you will be only partially disappointed.”
― Don Rittner

“Only you don’t change, Omar. You’re still a wreck. Look at your clothes, your hair…the hour you arrive at home. Now you have no father, you should look for a job and stop with this idle lunacy. Your father couldn’t bear looking at you like this. He couldn’t bear watching your life thrown away.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“When everything is falling down around you; when you’re faced with horrible disaster and people are overwhelmed; when you’re in the midst of huge personal disappointments; when the things you are believing for don’t happen – remind yourself that God is in charge. When it would be easy to think, “God, where are You?” – that is exactly when you need to stir up your loyalty to Him and lean into your core beliefs of what you know to be true about His nature and character. He is always good, kind, just, loving, faithful and true. Your actions and your words reflect your beliefs about God. Declare: “God, I don’t understand any of the circumstances, but I want to declare that I am absolutely loyal to You. There is nothing wrong with You; there never has been, and there never will be. Even if I never understand, I will be loyal to You, trusting in Your nature and character.”
― Darlene Cunningham, Values Matter: Stories of the Beliefs & Values that Shaped Youth With A Mission

“Some people simply aren’t interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davisff

“Some people simply aren’t interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“I acted like in those teen feminist poems where it’s date rape if he doesn’t read you the Antioch College rules chapter and verse while you’re glumly failing to see rainbows.”
― Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper

“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Rejection sucks, no matter how it's presented.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved.”
― Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

“When God sees that you have the potential to undertake an inward journey to reach Him, your outside world starts turning upside down.”
― Shunya

“The truth lies behind the strain in her voice, wallows in her hollow laugh. And now I recognise it for what it is; a buzz that’s existed since we met; the threatening stinger of a persistent lie.”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“Whatever disappointment you may faced, do not get discouraged.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Just as we often panic when our pleasure cruise becomes the Titanic, the Israelites didn't handle their disappointment very well.”
― Samuel Rodríguez, Shake Free: How to Deal with the Storms, Shipwrecks, and Snakes in Your Life

“we should give no illusions about ourselves to not disappoint people in the future.”
― Iren Oginski

“I hate writing this because my dad is going to read it, but having a parent who is always a little bit disappointed in you isn't ever going to be healthy. The question is whether it is an unhealthy weight that I have to struggle with or an unhealthy fuel that can actually propel me.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“Be determined to overcome any disappointments through diligence .”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Find a way to laugh about it and the sting will miraculously diffuse; joke about it and the pain will be no more. Just learn to take it easy and have life.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The train's wheels scraped the steel tracks, accelerating. With every rotation, Trey's heart hardened, like a popcorn kernel waiting to explode.”
― Donnah M. Cole, The Popcorn Fields