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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. (Jane Austen)
One's best success comes after one's greatest disappointments. (Henry Ward Beecher)
year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. (Ambrose Bierce)
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. (Ambrose Bierce)
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. (Cate Blanchett)
Be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment. (Michael Bolton)
Sometimes blessings are veiled in disappointment. (Pat Broderick)
No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey. (John Mason Brown)
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. (Les Brown)
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Suspense is worse than disappointment. (Robert Burns)
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. (Phil Collins)
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book. (Anita Desai)
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. (Evan Esar)
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. (Murray Gell-Mann)
Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity. (Vincent van Gogh)
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. (Thomas Hardy)
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer)
-on Dickens' Great Expectations...
Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them. (John Irving)
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. (Samuel Johnson)
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. (Samuel Johnson)
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. (Letitia Landon)
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. (Laurence Overmire)
Disappointment is often the salt of life. (Theodore Parker)
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. (Bayle Roche)
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. (Eliza Tabor)
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. (Henry David Thoreau)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
One cannot have everything the way he would like it. A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. (Mark Twain)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
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