1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

La déception était un risque chaque fois encouru, sa seule possibilité me causait un étourdissement durable. Elle provoquait dans mon être un vertige qui menaçait à tout instant de faire basculer l'ensemble. Pourtant, je tentais toujours de nouvelles accroches, quitte à me laisser martyriser.

Only you don’t change, Omar. You’re still a wreck. Look at your clothes, your hair…the hour you arrive at home. Now you have no father, you should look for a job and stop with this idle lunacy. Your father couldn’t bear looking at you like this. He couldn’t bear watching your life thrown away.

You never get the paper umbrellas you were promised in this world.

I never intended to disappoint you. You created a one sided promise I never agreed to. Note to self: A request is not an obligation. A one-side promise is the recipe for resentment.

Misery fills the emptiness that hope leaves behind when the world disappoints you.

Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed -- much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Why should I trust a man? Gentleman or street sweeper, I'll just get disappointed again." Percy sighs, shaking his head.

Forgo the futile pursuit of pleasing others, and focus on pleasing God. You’ll never be disappointed.

To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.