Quotes by Disappointment Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. Madame de Stael and-lovedisappointmentlong We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. Maeve Binchy betrayaldisappointmenthero Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. Maggie Kuhn strengthdisappointmentage With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant. Maggie Shipstead powerfulcompassiondisappointment You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. Maggie Stiefvater sadnessdisappointmentpeople I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal. Mandy Stadtmiller breakupdisappointmentwriting That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining. Marc Maron disappointmentchallengespeople In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment. Marc Maron humordisappointmentfunny Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. Marc Maron laughterpaindisappointment A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded. Marcus Buckingham disappointmenthappyhappiness "It's OK," Puck says. She has a quick way of hiding her disappointment. If you're not looking for it, she's put it away somewhere before you know it was there. "You're busy." "No," I tell her. "No, I'll think about it. I'm not sure if I can get away." I don't know wheat I'm thinking. I cannot find the time to get away. I'm not a good dinner companion. But it's hard to think of that. Instead I'm wishing that I'd spoken sooner, before I'd seen her disappointment. Maggie Stiefvater disappointmentwishthinking You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Marco Rubio giving-updisappointmentdream Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years. Marcel Proust gardendisappointmentself Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. Margaret of Valois credulitydisappointmentsuffering When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. Mahatma Gandhi disappointmentdoubtjoy ... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances. Margaret Oliphant succeedexcellentdisappointment Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. Marcel Proust disappointmentlifeart It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared. Margery Allingham optimisticdisappointmentspring ... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington failingdisappointmentdesire Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment. Maria Jane McIntosh holydisappointmentsoul«3233343536373839404142»
