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Disappointment Phrases: 1 to 20

Nothing hurts, poisons, sickens as much as disappointment. Because disappointment is a pain that always comes from a vanished hope, a defeat that always comes from a betrayed trust, that is, from the change of attitude of someone or something in which we believed. And when you suffer it you feel cheated, mocked, humiliated. ~ Oriana Fallaci

Here I am. That part of eternity that separates the sphere of disappointment from that of hope. ~ Ambrose Bierce

They let you down all the time, then they ask why you changed.

However, it is very fortunate that there is still something to be desired. If everything were perfect, you should certainly expect some disappointment. ~ Jane Austen

We must accept consummate disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men marry out of exhaustion, women out of curiosity: both are disappointed. ~ Oscar Wilde

Life is a long preparation for something that will never happen. ~ William Butler Yeats

Life is like that, what happens does not correspond and will never correspond to expectations. ~ Charlotte Brontë

Blessed are those who will never have dreams to fulfill because they will never be disappointed. ~ Jim Morrison

Disappointment is to a noble soul what cold water is to hot metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but does not destroy it. ~ Eliza Tabor Stephenson

We are born crying, we live complaining and we die disappointed. ~ Thomas fuller

Nothing is easier than fooling yourself. Because man believes that what he himself desires is true. ~ demosthenes

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose what is the dearest longing of our hearts; the other is to get it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Disappointments don't kill and hopes give life. ~ George Sand

Sometimes you feel so bad that you don't even have the strength to get angry.

We also get tired of feeling bad about it. ~ Charles M. Schulz

One who lives sincerely and faces pain and disappointment without bending down is much more worthy than one who has always had a favorable wind, knowing only relative prosperity. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Do not aspire to what has not been given to you, so that your frustrated hope has no reason for complaint. ~ Phaedrus

There can be no deep disappointment where there is no deep love. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

You never find a cathedral, a wave in a storm or a ballerina's jump as big as expected. ~ Marcel Proust

The biggest disappointment comes when you realize that the people you would brave a hurricane for, for you, wouldn't even get wet in a puddle.

Disappointment Phrases: 21 to 40

The lessons of disappointment, humiliation and error are deeper than those of a thousand teachers. ~ Johann Heinrich Fussli

Enthusiasm serves to "launch". If it doesn't help, you can calmly take advantage of the disappointment. ~ Karl Kraus

Over the years, it happens less often to be surprised or surprised, but also to be disappointed. ~ Albert Einstein

Be careful not to form a very high opinion of people you meet for the first time; otherwise, in most cases, you will be disappointed in your own contempt or even harm. ~ William Shakespeare

No one is more misanthropic than a disillusioned young man. ~ Herman Melville

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. ~ boyle roche

Those who investigate the real influence that the laws exert on the destiny of humanity are exposed to great disappointments, because there is nothing more difficult to evaluate than a fact. ~ alexis de tocqueville

Don't blame people for letting you down, blame yourself for setting too many expectations of them.

A woman can be devoted to women because the man has disappointed her, but sometimes the man disappoints her because she was looking for a woman in him. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

The greatest successes come after the greatest disappointments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The most correct way of conceiving life will be to see in it a disappointment, a disappointment: everything, it is too obvious, points to this. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The illusion of maturity follows the illusion of youth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Life is struggle and torment, disappointment, love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and dark storms. ~ Laurence olivier

Don't let today's disappointments cloud tomorrow's dreams.

The disappointed man speaks. He was looking for great men and I only found the apes of his ideal. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We promise with our hopes and deliver on our disappointments. ~ Henry Becque

God invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. ~ Mark Twain

Misanthropy arises when you have placed excessive trust in someone, without knowing him well, considering him a loyal, sincere, faithful friend, while then, little by little, it turns out that he is evil and treacherous, a completely different being. When this experience is repeated several times, especially with those we believed to be more trustworthy and more friendly, we end up, after so many disappointments, hating everyone and believing that there is nothing good in any man. ~ Plato

Nothing hurts, poisons, sickens as much as disappointment. ~ Oriana Fallaci

Disappointment Phrases: 41 to 60

He didn't say it out loud because he knew that when he said it, good things didn't happen. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ~ WB Yeats

A wish is the mother of all disappointments. ~ Alexander Pola

Disappointments open the eyes and close the heart.

If someone disappoints you, don't take it, it was the best they could offer you.

Nothing helps make the selection like disappointment.

Nothing is easier than fooling yourself. Because man believes that what he wants is true. ~ demosthenes

Disappointment is a feeling that never disappoints. ~ Francois Mauriac

There are times when disappointment comes to seek your soul like musicians do with musical keys, and the wider and deeper the keys, the more it takes a single word or gesture to make music you never wanted to resonate within. of you. . ~ fabrizio caramagna

The disappointment that burns the most is the one given to you by those who didn't promise you anything. Because you told the lie. lie to yourself

Dear life, if you are angry with me tell me immediately, so at least I will save myself other disappointments.

Disappointments change you. They make hearts colder, fears more evident and souls heavier.

Never touch your idols: gold sticks to your fingers. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Life to teach you things chooses the worst path: disappointment.

Blessed is he who expects nothing because he will never be disappointed. ~ Alexander Pope

Year. A series of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. ~ Ambrose Bierce

There are only three sources of disappointment: past, present and future. ~ Alejandro Morandotti

The first disappointment of each day is the battery that goes from 100 to 99%. So everything is accordingly.

Every disappointment breaks something in us and makes it terribly difficult to believe in others again.

Another disappointment and I finish the disc.

Disappointment Phrases: 61 to 80

He senses disappointment coming, but he's never ready for the impact.

Disappointment is nothing more than an uncomfortable reality that you insisted on not wanting to see.

Suddenly curb enthusiasm so as not to end up in the usual pit of disappointment.

I turn anger into strength, strength into passion, passion into love, love into disappointment, disappointment into anger. And I start again.

When people change, I get disappointed because I no longer recognize who I am. And when people don't change, it disappoints me that they remain who they are. Whatever people do, it disappoints me.

Chance. Favorable opportunity to buy a disappointment. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Here I am. Part of eternity that separates the sphere of disappointment from that of hope. ~ Ambrose Bierce

You manage to disappoint me more than I disappoint myself, think sometimes how painful an affinity is.

Every disappointment, which is avoided, intensifies the inevitable ones. ~ Michael casco

Anger -> disappointment -> resentment -> repression -> indifference.

And suddenly disappointment sets in, and my wing collection is covered in icy ice. ~ fabrizio caramagna

Time fixes everything except disappointment. There is no cure for that.

My eyes were full of beautiful things. Then I knew the disappointment.

I'm sorry, do you mind letting me down right away that I have an engagement in an hour?

In life you will meet many people who will never let you down, for no reason in the world. And also unicorns, hobbits and gnomes.

Men recover much better from love disappointments than financial ones. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Reality is the name we give to our delusions. ~ mason cooley

The history of humanity is almost entirely a narrative of failed projects and dashed hopes. ~ Samuel Johnson

I can't wait to get my hopes up. I have a date with disappointment.

Great expectations are the prelude to great disappointments. ~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Disappointment Phrases: 81 to 100

The pains, the disappointments and the melancholy are not made to dissatisfy us and take away our value and dignity, but to mature. ~ Hermann Hesse

The human soul is always deluded in its hopes, and always deceitful: always disappointed by hope itself, and always capable of being so: not only open, but possessed by hope in the very act of ultimate despair. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

In order not to suffer from delusions about human nature, we must begin by giving up our illusions about it. ~ Abraham Maslow

Illusions help us to live. Disappointments, die. ~ roberto gervaso

Minimum daily doses of disappointment to become immune.

Only fools don't realize how much disappointment, how much anger, how much sadness hides behind a "do nothing".

It's not the distance that keeps you away. is disappointment.

Coming into the world means discovering that you are in favor of death; being in favor of death means living day by day the disappointment of life. ~ Michel Onfray

A great love for life is inseparable from a more than desperate disappointment. ~ sergio quinzio

The people who disappointed me the most are the ones I idealized the most. ~ roberto gervaso

Men marry because they are tired. Women because they are curious. They are both disappointed. ~ Oscar Wilde

You think you've planted the flag on the highest peak of disappointment, and then a new mountain appears out of the mist.

We often try to lighten the gloomy shades of the present, speculating on favorable possibilities, and we invent chimerical hopes of all kinds, each of which is pregnant with a disappointment, which is not long in coming when this hope crashes against the harsh reality. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

You never find a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap high enough as expected. ~ Marcel Proust

The history of man and God is the history of mutual disappointment. ~ EM Cioran

Disappointments are to the soul what the storm is to the air. Clean everything.

Perhaps character is what is formed in a sunset, when disappointment has filled our hands with broken mirrors and lost hours and unfulfilled promises. ~ fabrizio caramagna

There are delusions that honor those who manage to live them. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The more we protect children from disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. ~ Fred G. Gosman

You may be disappointed if you don't succeed, but you're doomed from the start if you don't try. ~ beverly sills

Disappointment Phrases: 101 to 120

In twenty years you will not be disappointed in the things you have done, but in the things you have not done. ~ Mark Twain

We must accept the disappointment that is limited, but we must never lose the infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King

There is a very fine line that divides illusion from disappointment, it is called expectation.

Disappointment is an illusion that was not achieved.

I know you will fail me and I will fail you, but it would be an even greater disappointment not to give us the opportunity to do so.

Sometimes we are so stupid that we prefer the taste of a disappointment to the taste of an explanation.

Your life is woven of disappointments more than regrets. ~ Anselmo Bucci

The truth is, you can't protect anyone from disappointment. If you subtract from one, another immediately arrives, as if each one was destined to experience a fixed amount. ~ Clara Sanchez

Illusions fall off one after another like the skin of a fruit, and the fruit is the experience. It has a bitter taste; but it has something hard that strengthens. ~ Gérard de Nerval

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. ~ Sir Boyle Roche

When you find your way, you don't have to be afraid. You have to have the courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools that God uses to show us the way. ~ Paulo Coelho

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and abandonments, serve the soul at the very moment they appear as tragedies in our lives. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We must remember the part that is in eternity when we feel despair about the part that is in life. ~ Thomas Moore

Waiting means risking disappointment. But you have to face the risk because the greatest risk in life is never taking risks.

In the light of eternity we will see that what we wanted would be fatal to us, and that what we wanted to avoid was essential to our well-being. ~ Fenelon

A life that is directed primarily to the satisfaction of personal desires sooner or later leads to bitter disappointment. ~ Albert Einstein

Mom, what is a disappointment? - An effective way to absolve yourself by judging others.

Blessed are those who expect nothing, because they will never be disappointed. ~ alexander pope

Inside every cynic, there is a disillusioned idealist. ~ George Carlin

And that one hundred thousand have been defrauded, does it diminish the pain of the defrauded? ~ Cesare Pavese

People's greatest successes come after their greatest disappointments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Disappointment Phrases: 121 to 140

The experience is nothing more than the sum of our disappointments. ~ Enrique Federico Amiel

We also get tired of feeling bad about it. ~ Charlie Brown

Why almost everyone has suffered a love disappointment? Because the very love into which they have enthusiastically thrown themselves must betray them - by the law that you only get what you ask for with indifference. ~ Cesare Pavese

Nihilism is inseparable from a great love for life, because a great love for life is inseparable from a more than desperate disappointment. ~ sergio quinzio

Today those who, knowing and experiencing the world, have not become selfish, if they have no sense and talent, they can only have become misanthropes. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

The fate of those who have rebelled too much is that they no longer have energy except for disappointment. ~ Emil cioran

We are born crying, we live complaining and we die disappointed. ~ Thomas fuller