Quotes tagged ‘Disappointments’

“I’ve come to the conclusion that if having things turn out the way you wanted them to is a measure of a successful life, then some would say I'm a failure. The important thing is not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past. And recognize that every day won't be sunny, a…”

— Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux, Whitey Durham, Barry Corbin, imdb.com

“A lifetime of disappointments has given me douche-ray vision.”

— Dan Harmon, Britta Perry, Gillian Jacobs, imdb.com

“How we deal with disappointments is what decides the person we are.”

— Ken Kristensen, Steve Lightfoot, Farah Madani, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn’t make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”

— R. M. Drake, goodreads.com

“I kept hearing that ‘better to have loved and lost’ bull[crap]. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don’t show me paradise and then burn it down.”

— Harlan Coben, amazon.com

“I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

— Daniel Handler, amazon.com

“You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don’t. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, ‘I love you. I’ve always loved you back.”

— Courtney Maum, amazon.com

“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their desi…”

— Edmund Burke, amazon.com

“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”

— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— The Dalai Lama, amazon.com

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“If this is the only life, then why am I not just doing everything I want to do?”

— James Franco, youtube.com

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”

— Tonya Hurley, amazon.com

“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

“I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”

— Julia Glass, amazon.com

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

— Alexander Pope, amazon.com

“People are going to disappoint you, I get that, I kind of expect that but, what happens if one day you wake-up and realize you are the disappointment”

— Peyton Sawyer, amazon.com

“We are propelled through life by our hopes and dreams, but we also have to deal with reality. The trick is not to let reality get in the way. There will be setbacks, disappointment, and heartbreak, but the dream will keep you going. Believe in yourself and the dreams will come true.”

— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com