Disappointment Quotes
1191 quotes by 888 authors
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of…
— Cate Blanchett
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Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
— William Throsby Bridges
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty…
— Benjamin Britten
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
— Mel Brooks
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
— Les Brown
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
— Bill Bryson
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
— Robert Burns
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
— Leo Buscaglia
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