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135+ Insightful Quotes About Disappointment
1. “One always expects something else.” – Erich Maria Remarque
2. “Not all friends know they have lost you.” – Joyce Rachelle
3. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” –
4. “The greatest evil in premarital sex is a disappointment.” – ABC
5. “Most empty promises are a result of excitement.” – Thebe Kegomoditswe
6. “Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.” – Scott Turow
7. “Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.” –
8. “Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.” – Laurie Nadel
9. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
10. “If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.” – Tonya Hurley
11. “If you expect disappointment, you won’t be disappointed.” – Oli Anderson
12. “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” – W.B. Yeats
13. “Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.” –
14. “Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.” – Pawan Mishra
15. “It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.” –
16. “You never get the paper umbrellas you were promised in this world.” – Emily Henry
17. “When you have no expectations, you’ll never have disappointments.” –
18. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” – Alexander Pope
19. “People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment.” – Isaac Asimov
20. “How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.” – Lauren Groff
21. “Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction, only disappointment.” –
22. “One of the best protection against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” – Alain de Botton
23. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” –
24. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” –
25. “There’s nothing as disappointing as realizing you only dreamed a good thing.” – R.M. Romero
26. “Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” – Benjamin Franklin
27. “The importance we give our disappointment is what turns it into a tragedy.” – Nitya Prakash
28. “Hope isn’t destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred.” – Bill Willingham
29. “There are things some people can never understand.there’s no point in telling them.” – Chetan Bhagat
30. “Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.” – Charlotte Brontë
31. “See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation.” –
32. “Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make.” –
33. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
34. “Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.” – Graham Greene
35. “The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.” – Vannary Rang
36. “Seeing a gem as you surrounded with rust is what makes this heart mourn.” – Â
37. “Misery fills the emptiness that hope leaves behind when the world disappoints you.” – Chris Colfer
38. “You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.” – Vann Chow
39. “Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” –
40. “Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.” – Unknown
41. “Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
42. “Do not allow disappointments to defeat you. Be strong to start again.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
43. “Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
44. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” – Gugu Mofokeng
45. “It is better to know and be disappointed than to not know and always wonder.” –
46. “We are enslaved, not by the promise we have made, but by the desire to keep it.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
47. “Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.” – A.C.H. Smith
48. “The strength of a will can be gauged by how quickly it recovers from a fall.” – Marty Rubin
49. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.” – Haruki Murakami
50. “Whatever sadness or disappointments I faced in my life the solution I always found was to go on living.” – Marty Rubin
51. “Forgo the futile pursuit of pleasing others, and focus on pleasing God. You’ll never be disappointed.” – Farshad Asl
52. “To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.” – Juliet Marillier
53. “A disappointed is merely an assignment for your next appointment.” – Kayambila Mpulamasaka
54. “Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.” –
55. “The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.” – Albert Schweitzer
56. “You’ve had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.” – David Peace
57. “Drowning in silence, for in silence I shall never be disappointed.” – Samiha Totanji
58. “Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to expect the expected.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
59. “We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us.” – Lamine Pearlheart
60. “Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” –
61. “Fortitude creates winners and champions that aren’t always perfect but perfectly persistent.” – Allene Vanoirschot
62. “Sometimes disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.” – Nitya Prakash
63. “If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there’s no use continuing such behavior when you’re dead.” – Anthony Swofford
64. “Life, after all, is but a bundle of hints, each suggesting actual and positive development, but rarely reaching it.” – Ik Marvel
65. “There is no bigger disappointment than an inactive decision. It’s like making a child cry.” – Alan Maiccon
66. “When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.” – Jodi Picoult
67. “Flaws do not make you evil but human and if you seek the perfect embodiment of virtue, humans will disappoint you.” – Carmine Savastano
68. “At the time of the last sentence, you will realize that disappointment with deprivation is so whopping.” – Prof.Salam Al Shereida
69. “Regrets, she’d always considered, were for those stupid enough to think tomorrow might hold less disappointment than today.” – Marc Turner
70. “an’s Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.” – Stewart Stafford
71. “It’s easy not to be disappointed when you’re always wading in the shallow end of feelings.” – Maurene Goo
72. “The problem is, she’s done things too often because she didn’t what to disappoint people.” – Deb Caletti
73. “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” – Eric Hoffer
74. “The universal story is composed of segments of anxiety, disappointment, profanity, prayers, heartache, tragedy, and despair.” – Kilroy J. Oldster
75. “oaring in the heavens, away from all civilization, would allow her the freedom she needed to escape from the gravity of what people thought.” –
76. “Sometimes it’s not that you don’t want help. It’s that you can’t bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.” – Laura McBride
77. “Whenever I experienced some disappointment in my life, it was always laughter that came to my rescue.” – Marty Rubin
78. “The biggest disappointments in life come from having expectations that life will be a certain way and then finding out it isn’t.” – Kate McGahan
79. “There’s no law that says you have to be dissatisfied or disappointed with who you are.” – Marty Rubin
80. “When you eagerly depend upon the Lord for any provision, you eliminate all odds of disappointment.” – Gift Gugu Mona
81. “I think childhood is, generally speaking, preparation for disappointment.” –
82. “As you work towards your goals, disappointments may slow you down, but they don’t have to keep you down.” –
83. “Maturity really means, being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.” –
84. “A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.” – Kilroy J. Oldster
85. “What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.” – Alain de Botton
86. “You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity, you will just disappoint yourself.” – Abigail Biddinger
87. “We must all suffer one of two things, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” –
88. “Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.” –
89. “Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” –
90. “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.” –
91. “Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” –
92. “In a million years of falling off, humans never realized that maybe the pedestal isn’t made for their kind.” – Adeel Ahmed Khan
93. “If you could be a person who made no mistakes, had no failures and had no disappointments, you would not be a human, you would be a machine.” – Abhijit Naskar
94. “Disappointments maybe like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if there are enough of them, they can leave us seriously wounded.” – Brené Brown
95. “What hurts so bad about youth isn’t the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It’s the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.” – Mary Karr
96. “If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” – T
97. “I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world falls down again.” – Marina Keegan
98. “God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.” –
99. “You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.” –
100. “We met each other when we were young before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.” – Nicole Krauss
101. “The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.” –
102. “We’ve all experienced change for a moment, only to feel let down and disappointed in the end.” –
103. “If you think one day you will get it all done, and then you can relax, you are bound to be disappointed.” –
104. “Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” – Eliza Tabor
105. “He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.” – Michael Chabon
106. “But you know that disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.” –
107. “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” –
108. “If you put in little effort and expect big returns, you will be deeply disappointed. You don’t get apples by planting lemon seeds.” –
109. “In some cases, we first need to disappoint or enrage someone, or to break their heart, for them to finally show us their true colors.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
110. “At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.” – George Packer
111. “The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.” – Jamie McGuire
112. “Life is all about setbacks. A life lived without disappointment is a life lived in a cocoon. People have recovered from far worse setbacks.” –
113. “Disappointment is a sticky one because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace, we have to give it away.” –
114. “We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.” –
115. “When you used to think so highly of someone and then one day realize you were blind to things that screamed ‘not a person of honorable character at all.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
116. “Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as a success, for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.” –
117. “People and events don’t disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.” –
118. “The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.” –
119. “Disappointments are healthy for us. They tame egos, deflate pride, and soften hearts while cultivating respect for the struggles experienced by all humanity.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
120. “Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have fewer disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.” –
121. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” –
122. “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.” –
123. “The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” –
124. “Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude, and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
125. “There’s always a failure. And there’s always a disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.” –
126. “Every disappointment is preceded by an appointment. If we do not appoint a person as a reliable friend, neither will we be disappointed when he’s not on point at the point of our need.” – Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
127. “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.” –
128. “Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life.” – James De Mille
129. “What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.” –
130. “Life is not always a celebration, so be ready to courageously face disappointments when they come, and be sure to grow stronger and wiser from them.” –
131. “We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don’t. People and events don’t disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.” – Stefan Zweig
132. “In the midst of my disappointment, I am never defeated. Only given the opportunity to rise again willing to take on new challenges.” –
133. “The best way to deal with disappointment is to acknowledge and work through the feelings it induces.” –
134. “Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened to you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.” –
135. “Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.” – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson