1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

Seeing a gem like you surrounded with rust is what makes this heart mourn.

Mrs. Bostwick’s face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.

So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.

Some is better than none. Anything would be better than this.

Perhaps the desire to take photographs arises from the observation that on the broadest view, from the standpoint of reason, the world is a great disappointment. In its details, however, and caught by surprise, the world always has a stunning clarity.The secret form of the Other is what has to be reconstituted, as in anamorphosis, starting with the fragments and tracing its broken lines, its lines of fracture.

Her blue eyes wavered as she blinked.He would never forget her shattered emotion at that moment.From her once shining heart, her once gleaming blue eyes—something had died.The blue eyes were now filled with unbearable disappointment and despair.It was at that night he bore witness to the fallen hope of his beloved someone—said hope died in his arms.