1,019 Quotes About Disappointment

I'm the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest.

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.