Quotes: disappointment
Quotes 1 till 15 of 34.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray -
A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
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I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.
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I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
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I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.
Source: Part Troll -
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
