1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us.

It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.

Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if there are enough of them, they can leave us seriously wounded.

Watching these happy beings for whom weeping was impossible, he had become incapable of grief; watching their inconsistencies, he had become incapable of knowing right from wrong; disregarded by them he had become incapable of disappointment.

Sometimes disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.

Sometimes it’s not that you don’t want help. It’s that you can’t bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.

Lindy, you're not disappointed with Tim. You're disappointed by your own expectations.

What's in your mind, I suppose, is, why should you rise to occasions when I don't? Let's face it—who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I walked up to you. I knocked on your door. There wasn't other way to go. Then when you have revealed yourself. I found nothing there Your eyes have misled me.