Disappointment Quotes - page 2

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. (Laurence Housman)
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. View quote
Michael Bergin
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. View quote
Robert Wyatt
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before. View quote
Rollo May
perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The families of our friends are always a disappointment. View quote
Norman Douglas
Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that, find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away - a faith for living, a faith for tying. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular” writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life. (Nicholas Sparks)
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. View quote
Sarah Grimké
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. View quote
Geezer Butler
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. View quote
Nick Hornby
A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. View quote
Michael Chabon
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment. View quote
Clare Short
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God. (John Newton)
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. View quote
David Hume
There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much - and then performed so little. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. View quote
Gustave Flaubert