Quotes about Disappointment
but I still held my breath waiting for Brünnhilde to rise up out of the pyre at the end. And then, instead of a beautiful maiden emerging from the flames, there rose up a great fat
- Madeleine L'Engle
We let life down: it doesn't let us down.
- Marty Rubin
This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.
- John Bevere
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
- Thomas Monson
There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Anger is really disappointed hope.
- Erica Jong
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
- Shane Claiborne
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
- Mark Twain
The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.
- Jason Fried