Quotes about Disappointment

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him. We tend to make our first priority the gaining of relief from our feelings of heartache or disappointment or frustration. This

I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty. I had treated seeing Catherine very lightly, I had gotten somewhat drunk and had nearly forgotten to come but when I could not see her there I was feeling lonely and hollow.

He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.