Quotes about Disappointment
I should have been reminded that disappointment produces despair and despair produces bitterness, and that the one thing certain about bitterness is its blindness. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The darkest hour of our struggle had become the hour of victory. Disappointment, sorrow, and despair are born at midnight, but morning follows. I
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is disappointment with the Christian church that appears to be more white than Christian, and with many white clergymen who prefer to remain silent behind the security of stained-glass windows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
- Bishop TD Jakes
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We may only imagine the scene, the old man, the rough ex—sea captain who had so loved little Wilberforce as a boy, and who had entertained such hopes for him, only to see them dashed.
- Eric Metaxas
A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.
- Graham Greene
disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
- Graham Greene