Collection of sentences on disappointment, with quotes of thoughts that derive from the personal experience of those who have been disappointed, aphorisms concerning this overwhelming human feeling.
Quotes about disappointment
- All the battles in life serve to teach us something, even the lost ones that have caused us disappointment.
- A life that mainly aims to satisfy personal desires leads sooner or later to a bitter disappointment. (Albert Einstein)
- Disappointments don't kill and hopes bring life.
- People's best hits come after their biggest disappointments. (Henry Ward Beecher)
- Giving infinite possibilities is counterproductive. Some disappointments only repeat, they are incurable diseases.
- The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of the dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way. (Robert Kiyosaki)
- Blessed is he who expects nothing because he will never be disappointed.
- Disappointments in love, even betrayals and abandonments, serve the soul at the very moment when they seem to be tragedies in our life. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We should remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel desperation for the part that is in life. (Thomas Moore)
- There are disappointments that honor those who manage to live them.
- When you find your path, you don't have to be afraid. You need to have the courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools that God uses to show us the way. (Paulo Coelho)
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- Illusions fall one after the other like the skins of a fruit, and the fruit is experience. Despite having a bitter taste, they have something sour that fortifies the soul.
- Who for fear of disappointments has always renounced being happy is worse off than someone who has seized every occasion of happiness, even running the risk that it was never the real one. (Arthur Schnitzler)
- When we live on false hopes, we often encounter many disappointments that promptly knock on the door.
- Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. (Sir Boyle Roche)
- In order not to suffer disappointments with regard to human nature, we must begin by renouncing our illusions with respect to it.
- We must accept the disappointment which is limited, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King)
- From any disappointment, learn the lesson.
Aphorisms on disappointment
- You can be disappointed if you can't, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Sills Beverly)
- Experiencing adventure is dangerous, even in broad terms, since what is obtained from it is usually nothing more than a more or less substantial sum of disappointments and regrets.
- The more we protect children from all disappointments, the more devastating future disappointments will be. (Fred G. Gosman)
- If disappointment has put a dream out of you, don't let your life go out. Live it to the fullest and you will find your serenity.
- There are disappointments that honor those who manage to live them. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
- The pains, disappointments and melancholy are not made to make us unhappy and take away value and dignity, but to mature us. (Hermann Hesse)
- High expectations are the prelude to great disappointments. (Cecilia Dart-Thornton)
- The disappointment for a noble soul is what cold water is for a burning metal; strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but does not destroy it. (Eliza Tabor Stephenson)
- Do not let disappointment leave room for sadness, gather your story with all your strength and turn it into beautiful memories, the only ones you deserve!
- The fate of those who rebelled too much is to have no more energy except for disappointment. (Emil Cioran)
- High expectations are the prelude to great disappointments.
- Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. (Mason Cooley)
- By running the risk of failure, of disappointments, of disappointments, but never ceasing to seek Love, those who persevere in the search will triumph.
- Men recover much better from love disappointments than from economic ones. (George Bernard Shaw)
- The experience is only the sum of our disappointments.
- I have no expectations, because they only lead to great disappointments. (Michael Landon)
Phrases about disappointment
- And that a hundred thousand have been disappointed, does the pain of those who are disappointed lessen? (Cesare Pavese)
- Perhaps the fear of a new disappointment can cause you not to become attached to people, not to let anger and some old grudge not bring out what is good in your heart.
- Disappointment is a feeling that never disappoints. (Francois Mauriac)
- Do not aspire to what has not been given to you, so that your disappointed hope has no reason to complain.
- Blessed are those who expect nothing, because they will never be disappointed. (Alexander Pope)
- There can be no profound disappointment where there is no deep love.
- People's best hits come after their biggest disappointments. (Henry Ward Beecher)
- Getting rid of a disappointment makes us wiser than having a truth.
- The experience is only the sum of our disappointments. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)
- There are disappointments that weigh on the heart like boulders, going on becomes difficult. But you always remember that whatever happens, they can shatter a dream but not your ability to get up and believe that you deserve much more. Fight and face the disappointment with that light that comes straight from within you!
- The affirmation without discipline is the beginning of the disappointment. (Jim Rohn)
- The pains, disappointments and melancholy are not made to make us unhappy and take away value and dignity, but to mature us. (Hermann Hesse)
- The disappointments of the mature age follow the illusions of youth.
- One of the best ways to get a life full of disappointments is to build an image of how you would like things to be, and then try to adapt everything to that image. (Richard Bandler)
- Today I just want a little sweetness to erase the bitter taste of these constant disappointments.
- Illusions fall one after the other like the skins of a fruit, and the fruit is experience. It has a bitter taste; but it has something sour that fortifies. (Gérard de Nerval)
- You were a disappointment for me, you made me suffer, you tore my heart to shreds, but remember, if life is like everyone says, a wheel, all the disappointment that you made me feel will come back to you like a boomerang.
- We must accept the disappointment over, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
