best quotations about
Disappointment |
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Quotations
 | I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 65 likes |
 | Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 17 likes |
 | It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 10 likes |
 | Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 10 likes |
 | If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | A true Zen saying: “Nothing is what I want.” — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 6 likes |
 | My past is everything I failed to be. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
 | Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 4 likes |
 | Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 4 likes |
 | All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 4 likes |
 | It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts. — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 3 likes |
 | Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
| It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
| What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 3 likes |
| What remains is solitude. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Oh, where are you youth, that you showed that I would become another! — Kostas Varnalis, 1883-1974, Greek poet 2 likes |
| Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes |
 | Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
 | I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter (his last words) 2 likes |
 | That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes |
 | There is no there there. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer (perhaps a reference to her childhood home of Oakland, that had been razed) |
 | Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. |
 | Beware how you take away hope from any human being. |
 | Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. |
| Do not trust the frustrated. They are usually incompetent. |
| And now, she could not believe that the meaningless life she was living was the happiness she had dreamed of. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | Most things disappoint till you look deeper. |
| Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?... Like a marriage from which love has gone… And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. |
 | Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. |
 | Sightseeing is the art of disappointment. |
 | Since ideals have such an irresistible inclination to disappoint us, it is wisdom to have more than one. |
 | Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. |
 | For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. |
 | I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. |
| Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. |
 | A pessimist is never disappointed. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | Writing is frustration – it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time. |
 | The worst wall of all is a door that you do not have the key to. |
 | Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. |
| I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all. |
 | What crime have we committed to deserve to be born? |
 | Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. |
 | Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. |
Personal Stories
 | I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 4 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | The gods thought otherwise. Dis aliter visum. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 35 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Wherever I travel, Greece hurts me. |
| People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. |
Funny Quotes
 | A girl phoned me the other day and said, “Come on over. There's nobody home.” I went over. Nobody was home. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Everything is ill-arranged, ill-managed, ill-defined. Άτακτα, αδιόρθωτα, αόρισθ’ άπαντα. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 4 likes |
 | The mountain labors and gives birth to a mouse. Ώδινεν όρος και έτεκεν μυν. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 3 likes |
