“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, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Alone, Loner
“You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.”— Amy Jo Cousins, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Optimist, Pessimist
“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, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Loss, Almost Relationships
“Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”— Patricia McCormick, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, hopes
“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.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Love, Dating
“She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.”— Michelle Madow, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, fairy tales, Let Down
“You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more a…”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Love, Hope
“Grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.”— Susan Fletcher, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Grief, Faith
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Happiness, Expectations
“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that…”— Alfred Hayes, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Hope, Denial
“I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down. Does that make sense?”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Let Down, Drained
“There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people who have disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, forgive, Anger
“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”— Julia Glass, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Surprised, Disappointed
“Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.”— Kilroy J. Oldster, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Bitter
“He tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Wrong
“I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired.”— Jenna Mullins, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Let Down, Excited
“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Mind, helpful
“I say goodbye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, goodbye, Hope
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”— Carlos Wallace, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Changes, Dating
“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”— Robin Hobb, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Hope, Expectations
“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”— Bryn Greenwood, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Waiting, Love
“As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I’ve learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.”— Carlos Wallace, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Focus, Determination
“Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.”— Kathleen Rice Adams, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Happiness, Cougar
“I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.”— Stephen Dunn, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, comparison, humor
“Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.”— Katie Kiesler, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, motivation, inspiration
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”— Graham Greene, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Questions
“One of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.”— Jane Green, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Romanticize, Expectations
“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”— Thomas Moore, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Love, Betrayal
“Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Optimism, strength
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, Love, expression