1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion; silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.

I don't think she's had much of a life.""Well, a life is a life.""What does that mean?""One never knows. I daresay most lives are rotten. It's only when one's young one expects otherwise.

Too small, too weak to get his demons behind him,” Theo later wrote in his journal, full of the hard, tragic judgment children have when their parents disappoint them so severely.

Scratches and light wounds should not stop you from enjoying life. When people or things hurt you, have some strength to continue living your life.

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

In every heart there's a certain spark of desire, measured by the strength of your honesty and imagination; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

The strength of a will can be gauged by how quickly it recovers from a fall.

The strength of a body can be gauged by how quickly it recovers from a fall.