“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”— Tonya Hurley, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.com
“Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”— Patricia McCormick, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't 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, amazon.com
“Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“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…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“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.com
“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“Disappointment is coming, for sure! People are going to hurt you in ways you would never have believed even possible. You are going to be let-down and deeply betrayed. And there is only one thing to do when you are tragically let down — let-go. No matter how wrong they were, holding on will not make…”— Bryant McGill, bryantmcgill.tumblr.com
“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Unrealistic expectations don't lead to Happily Ever After. They lead to the land of perpetual disappointment. So enjoy romance all you want, but don't romanticize your relationship.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.com
“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“There are too many people today who instead of feeling hurt are acting out their hurt; instead of acknowledging pain, they’re inflicting pain on others. Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they’re choosing to live disappointed. Emotional stoicism is not badassery. Blustery posturing is not bad…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com