Quotes about Disappointment
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.
— Charles Dickens
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
— Joseph Wirthlin
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
— Euripides
I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
— Erica Jong
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.
— John Eldredge
As a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it. The pride of having his judgment right hardens his heart, till at last he beholds with satisfaction, or sees with disappointment, the accomplishment or failure of his predictions.
— Thomas Paine
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
— Thomas Monson
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
— Oscar Wilde
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
— Oscar Wilde
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.
— Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.
— Cormac McCarthy