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Disappointment
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“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”
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“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.”
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“... no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.”
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“It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.”
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“... a great man does not leave behind him his genius, but its traces. Now, there is no disappointment so bitter as that whose cause is in ourselves.”
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“Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.”
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“Let's face it — who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”
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“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.”
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“The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.”
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“You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over.”
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“But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!”
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“... she felt somehow that her poor heart was like a ravaged garden, in which all the flowers had been uprooted, and now Grief, as a gardener, moved about in there, planting thistles and poisonous herbs.”
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“I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics — with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.”
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“To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted ...”
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“To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.”
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“Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.”
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“The reality has displaced from my mind an illusion much more magnificent than itself. ... I am metamorphosed; I am translated; I am an ass's head, a clod, a wooden spoon, a fat weed growing on Lethe's brink, a stock, a stone, a petrifaction. For have I not seen Niagara, the wonder of wonders, and felt — no words can tell what — disappointment?”
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“Sorrow and suffering give opportunities for growth. Disappointment opens doors to wider fields.”
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“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world — the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”
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“Ah, the disappointment of remaining put when one is ready to leave ...”
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“As long as you can still be disappointed, you are still young.”
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“Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.”
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“... there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.”
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“You gave me wings to fly; / Then took away the sky.”
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“They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.”