Disappointment Quotes

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. View quote
Evan Esar
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. View quote
Eric Hoffer
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. View quote
Anthony Powell
Suspense is worse than disappointment. View quote
Robert Burns
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. View quote
Frank Luntz
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. View quote
Eleanor Catton
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)
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. View quote
Benjamin Britten
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. View quote
George Eliot
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es. View quote
George Eliot
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. View quote
Carl Jung
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. (Kurt Vonnegut)
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. View quote
Cate Blanchett
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. View quote
Famke Janssen
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views. View quote
Greg Ginn