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50 Quotes For Girls That Have Been Disappointed One Too Many Times

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.
Holly Riordan
January 18, 2017
“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, My Sister's Keeper: A Novel(Wsp Readers Club)
Tagged: Disappointment, Alone, Loner
“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 of my own optimism.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Disappointment, Potential, Love
“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Disappointment, Friends Hurt Me
“Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Disappointment, Defeat, Despair, God
“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, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Tagged: Disappointment, Moving On, surviving
“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, Handle With Care
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, Dating
“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, The Nature of Jade
Tagged: Disappointment, Loss, Almost Relationships
“Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
— Patricia McCormick, Cut
Tagged: Disappointment, Expectations, hopes
“Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves(The Raven Cycle)
Tagged: Disappointment, Baggage, Moving On
“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, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Tagged: Disappointment, Suffering, Pride, Faith
“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, The History of Love
Tagged: Disappointment, Youth, Dating
“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, Homecoming
Tagged: Disappointment, Expectations, hopes
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
— Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants: A Novel
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, expression
“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
— Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ed: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, Betrayal
“You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered.”
— Nicole Krauss, Man Walks Into a Room
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, Hope
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Questions
“I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.”
— Stephen Dunn, Different Hours: Poems
Tagged: Disappointment, comparison, humor
“Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.”
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Disappointment, Hope, Faith
“As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I’ve learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.”
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Tagged: Disappointment, Focus, Determination
“He tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Tagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Wrong
“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”
— Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel
Tagged: Disappointment, Waiting, Love
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Tagged: Disappointment, Changes, Dating
“Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.”
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Tagged: Disappointment, Expectations, Bitter
“I say goodbye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.”
— David Levithan, How They Met
Tagged: Disappointment, goodbye, Hope
“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”
— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
Tagged: Disappointment, Mind, helpful
“You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.”
— Amy Jo Cousins, The Girl Next Door
Tagged: Disappointment, Optimist, Pessimist
“I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired.”
— Jenna Mullins, Rules of Seduction
Tagged: Disappointment, Let Down, Excited
“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin: Book I of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy
Tagged: Disappointment, Hope, Expectations
“Disappointments are part of life; we can’t always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, 'Oh well, a hundred years from now it won’t make any difference!'”
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Tagged: Disappointment, Heaven, Failure
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
— Jen Pollock Michel,, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
Tagged: Disappointment, Wanting, Losing