quotations about disappointment
Disappointment is to a noble soul what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys.
ELIZA STEPHENSON
St. Olave's
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
Disappointment
His appointment,
Change one letter, then I see
That the thwarting of my purpose
Is God's better choice for me.
PHIL KEAGGY
"Disappointment"
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS
Epidicus
It is folly to pretend one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion: such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.
FRED ROGERS
The World According to Mister Rogers
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
FRANCES WRIGHT
Course of Popular Lectures