What hurts so bad about youth isn’t the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It’s the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half,...

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man depressed.

Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing

Jeg trodde jeg var skuffet – og jeg tenkte det var fordi jeg hadde lengtet så meget og drømt så meget, at alt jeg ville få se, skulle bli blekt og fattig imot mine drømer....

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch...

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

These are the three stages of love: trust, doubt and disappointment.

You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’...

Things often have a 50/50 chance of going our way or the other, trust that you will be able to handle the disappointment, change, discomfort and treat it all as an adventure.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people...

Trust me.” The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.

I realized at that moment – observing his form move further away without once turning back – that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone...

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will...

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional...

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming...

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

One always expects something else.

I keep my hope alive.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child’s emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself...

We would be in each other’s lives again. No, he hadn’t been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he’d disappointed me countless times...

…you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world – I can’t hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you …

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy....

I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This...

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.

Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice?….u’ve been DISSAPPOINTED

People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.

My feelings for you run very deep.” – LoorNot deep enought, I guess.” – Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not...

Do not be afraid to pursue your God-given goals.

So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in...

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they’re not

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s...

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I...

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I’d lived through several of them already.

The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.

His intentions were not very clear but there is a sense of disappointment in the market, considering some people were thinking the recent spikes in the short to intermediate sector of the yield curve were...

Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It’s expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but...

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.

One of the surest ways to live a life that’s full of disappointments, is to expect people to be perfect.

When people give you disappointment, don’t worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.