Disappointment

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 
― H. Jackson Brown

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” 
― Jodi Picoult

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” 
― Alexander Pope

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ” 
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” 
― Joel Osteen

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” 
― Paulo Coelho

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” 
― William Blake

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” 
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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 disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.” 
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” 
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ” 
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.” 
― Sarah Dessen

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.” 
― Margaret Atwood

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.” 
― Deb Caletti

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” 
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” 
― Toba Beta

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ” 
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.” 
― Patricia McCormick

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” 
― W.B. Yeats

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” 
― Eric Hoffer

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” 
― P.G. Wodehouse

“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” 
― Kate Chisman

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.” 
― Scott Turow

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.” 
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.” 
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead

“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.” 
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz” 
― Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes