“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”— Vann Chow, amazon.com
“Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong? Is there a new path God wants me to explore?”— Billy Graham, amazon.com
“Disappointments are part of life; we can’t always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, 'Oh well, a hundred years from now it won’t make any diffe…”— Billy Graham, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I say goodbye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“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.com
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”— Carlos Wallace, amazon.com
“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”— Bryn Greenwood, amazon.com
“He tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“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.com
“Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com