Quote by Abby Slovin

“Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”

— Caroline Leavitt

“So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“This is the deal, Angel. You… ran… away from me. And I tasted regret for the first time in my life. And that didn’t…

— Kristen Ashley

“Disappointment is the end of an illusion.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Every disappointment that came to me brought with it an enduring lesson that repaid me eventually tenfold.”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

“You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had…

— William Boyd

“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.”

— Robin Hobb

“When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound.…

— Janny Wurts

“Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I never realised that the weight of disappointment rests mostly on your heart.”

— Ayisha Malik