Quotes by Disappointment There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. Edmund Burke designjudgementdisappointment Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth Eckhart Tolle disappointmentmayneeds The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining. Edward Hoagland disappointmentlosslife For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy. Edward S. Curtis disappointmentjoynegative Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton disappointed-lovegreaterdisappointment None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment. Edward Whitacre, Jr. disappointmentlossjobs In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton paindisappointmentletting-go In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. Edward Young youthdisappointmentage Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. Edwin Hubbel Chapin shadowdisappointmentsides Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled. El DeBarge disappointmentstrugglewriting Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts. Eleanor Brown disappointmenthurt I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. Eleanor Catton effortdisappointmentlittles I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration. Edward Snowden disappointmentlawthinking If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed. Eliezer Yudkowsky zebrasdisappointmentzoos Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Elbert Hubbard heartachedisappointmentgiving Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment. Eliezer Yudkowsky ethosrealdisappointment Disappointment tears the bearable film off life. Elizabeth Bowen filmtearsdisappointment Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance. Elizabeth George disappointmentexpectationsmind In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. Elizabeth Gaskell disappointmentsympathy I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton disappointmentchristianmemories«1011121314151617181920»
