Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Disappointment Quotes
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
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.
