Quotes by Disappointment If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little. Arthur Schopenhauer lightdisappointmentsight There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment. Arthur Schopenhauer elderlyerrorsdisappointment If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments. Ashleigh Brilliant disappointmentmissingtrying I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment. Ashleigh Brilliant nextdisappointment The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations. Ashwin Sanghi disappointmentexpectationsreality For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough! Astrud Gilberto musicdisappointmenthurt Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again. Athol Fugard disappointmentwritingthinking Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn disappointmentsuccessbirthday Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us Aziz Ansari wifedisappointmentcheating It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function. B. C. Forbes indulge-indisappointmentyears A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting. B. F. Skinner errorsdisappointmentmight In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards. Babe Paley disappointmenthumbleintegrity I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there. Banksy crushcoupledisappointment That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment. Barack Obama electionteamdisappointment I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing. Barbara Delinsky disappointmentfearfather We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers. Barbara Johnson lonelinessflowerdisappointment It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? Barbara Mertz pessimistoptimistdisappointment if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well. Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth disappointmentselfthinking Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. Baron de Montesquieu sovereigndisappointmentreading I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment. Bella Pollen disappointmentwantthinking«1234567891011»
