Disappointment quotations

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◆ Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

- Eric Hoffer99

◆ Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- W.B. Yeats99

◆ Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

- Scott Turow99

◆ We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

- Kate Chisman99

◆ 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 Chekhov99

◆ One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

- Alain de Botton99

◆ He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ When people change, I'm disappointed they're not who I remember them being. And when people don't change, I'm disappointed they still are who they were. All people do is disappoint, and I do mean all people.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

- Nicole Krauss99

◆ Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

- Kaui Hart Hemmings99

◆ Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

- Eliza Tabor Stephenson99

◆ The most happy people are those who don't expect anything from anyone. Because expectation always hurts.

- Anurag Prakash Ray99

◆ Always put your trust or faith in God, because man will only disappoint you.

- Vikrant Parsai99