1,019 Quotes About Disappointment
- Author Sarah Manguso
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Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you. But consider also that you might miss feeling disappointed.
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- Author Emily Fridlund
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This was the best and worst thing about my wife: she felt sorry for me. When I put my work boots on the mantel or fell asleep on her side of the bed, she'd groan and clench her teeth. She'd kiss me, long and deep, a sigh of disappointment.
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The greatest evil in premarital sex is disappointment
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- Author André Aciman
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Seeing him and thinking he'd join us for dinner tonight only to hear his peremptory Esco taught me there are certain wishes that must be clipped like wings off a thriving butterfly.
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- Author Linda Berdoll
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Expectations placed low enough are rarely disappointed.
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- Author Vann Chow
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You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
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- Author Joan D. Vinge
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[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.
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- Author Katherine Boo
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But in her current mood, small affronts were bundled with larger disappointments and became a body of evidence.
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- Author Gift Gugu Mona
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When you eagerly depend upon the Lord for any provision, you eliminate all odds of disappointment.
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