277 quotes found
“Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake”
“I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,...”
“When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.”
“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”
“Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments”
“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...”
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”
“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”
“[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.”
“History is disappointed with us human being.”
“When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a natural catastrophe preparing you for distinguished conditions." - Darmie Orem”
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be dis...”
“It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.”
“Trust me." The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.”
“It's funny how much more a person grows when she doesn't get what she wants. When you disappoint me, it's like I have to look in the mirror of my history and see all the times I've been disappointe...”
“I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The ...”
“There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people whohave disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huf...”
“The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost ...”
