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

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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.

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)

Disappointment Alone Loner

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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

Disappointment Optimist Pessimist

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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

Disappointment Loss Almost Relationships

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Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

— Patricia McCormick, Cut

Disappointment Expectations hopes

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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

Disappointment Love Dating

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She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever (The Secret Diamond Sisters)

Disappointment fairy tales Let Down

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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

Disappointment Love Hope

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Grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.

— Susan Fletcher, The Silver Dark Sea

Disappointment Grief Faith

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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

Disappointment Happiness Expectations

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We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.

— Alfred Hayes, In Love (Modern Romance Classics)

Disappointment Hope Denial

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I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down. Does that make sense?

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Disappointment Let Down Drained

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There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people who have disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can’t stomp off in a huff every minute of the day.

— Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)

Disappointment forgive Anger

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I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

— Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

Disappointment Surprised Disappointed

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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

Disappointment Expectations Bitter

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He tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong.

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Disappointment Expectations Wrong

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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

Disappointment Let Down Excited

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Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

Disappointment Mind helpful

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I say goodbye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

— David Levithan, How They Met

Disappointment goodbye Hope

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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

Disappointment Changes Dating

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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

Disappointment Hope Expectations

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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

Disappointment Waiting Love

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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

Disappointment Focus Determination

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Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.

— Kathleen Rice Adams, Prodigal Gun

Disappointment Happiness Cougar

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I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has.

— Stephen Dunn, Different Hours: Poems

Disappointment comparison humor

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Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

— Katie Kiesler, Because I Love You

Disappointment motivation inspiration

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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)

Disappointment Expectations Questions

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One of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.

— Jane Green, Summer Secrets: A Novel

Disappointment Romanticize Expectations

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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

Disappointment Love Betrayal

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Stay strong; disappointments will not stay for that long. Wipe away your tears; be ready to receive cheers from people all over the world, beginning from you!

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

Disappointment Optimism strength

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

— Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants: A Novel

Disappointment Love expression

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Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze.

— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

Disappointment Bitter Acceptance

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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

Disappointment Wanting Losing

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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

Disappointment Expectations hopes

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I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

— Criss Jami, Healology

Disappointment Expectations Surprises

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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

Disappointment Youth Dating

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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

Disappointment Suffering Pride Faith

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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)

Disappointment Baggage Moving On

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Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive, The)

Disappointment Expectations Pottery

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How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

— Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly

Disappointment Dreams Expectations

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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

Disappointment Moving On surviving

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Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

— Paulo Coelho, Brida

Disappointment Defeat Despair God

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The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!

Disappointment opportunities silver lining

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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Disappointment Friends Hurt Me

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You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, 'I am good enough, I will try again.'

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!: (Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)

Disappointment strength Good Enough

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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

Disappointment Potential Love

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When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)

Disappointment Belief Hope

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If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.

— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody: A novel (Master Shanghai) (Volume 1)

Disappointment Love Dating

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Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong? Is there a new path God wants me to explore?

— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

Disappointment God hopes Dreams

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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

Disappointment Heaven Failure

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Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.

— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Disappointment Hope Faith

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