quotations about disappointment
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
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
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
Disappointment
His appointment,
Change one letter, then I see
That the thwarting of my purpose
Is God's better choice for me.
PHIL KEAGGY
"Disappointment"
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
FRANCES WRIGHT
Course of Popular Lectures
It is folly to pretend one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion: such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS
Epidicus