Quotes by Disappointment People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me. Ann Patchett disappointment acceptance dog To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted. Ann Radcliffe disappointment mind discovery 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. Ann Radcliffe conviction disappointment mind What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one! Ann Radcliffe luxury disappointment integrity By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life. Anna Quindlen metaphor disappointment age Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. Anne Lamott coming-to-an-end disappointment ends Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love. Anne Lamott betrayal loyalty disappointment We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. Anne Morrow Lindbergh disappointment littles happiness This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural? Anne Rice disappointment lying children I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes. Anne Roiphe family disappointment sex Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Ansel Adams landscape photography disappointment Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. Anthony Powell disappointment children years If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead. Anthony Swofford disappointment hurt people There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path. Anton Chekhov stills disappointment path My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first. Anton Corbijn disappointment character people 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. Anzia Yezierska wall disappointment education Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment. Arielle Ford creating stress disappointment It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business. Arnold Palmer airplane disappointment country Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers Arthur Helps philosopher mets disappointment He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. Arthur Rimbaud eye disappointment heart «1234567891011»