1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

One always expects something else.

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.