Browsing Topic Best Disappointment Love Quotes

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion–and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn’t expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything – fortune, love, even a limb – if I could simply survive.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.