Quotes with disappointment

  • Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

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  • Ashleigh Brilliant I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Les Brown Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hybels A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Eric Hoffer Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Johnson Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Peggy Noonan Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Bill Bailey I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Ben Marcus I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Ansel Adams Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruno Bettelheim Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Anthony Powell Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Anthony Powell Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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