The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Disappointment Quotes
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
If, of all words of tongue or pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’ More sad are these we daily see; ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be!’
I ran away twice; once at about 13, and once at 17. There is not much satisfaction in it, even as a recollection. It was a couple of disappointments, particularly the first one. The heroics squish out of such things so promptly.
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Should a single disappointed hope make us so hostile towards the world?
Outcome, n. A particular type of disappointment -judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be judged by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion; there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting to cry.
