Dismay Quotes

58 quotes by 57 authors

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. — Russell Baker
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which… — Honore de Balzac
When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip. — Wes Fesler
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life… — Eduard Suess
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague de Camp
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. — Ivanka Trump
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. — William Wordsworth
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over… — David Lloyd George
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will… — Primo Levi
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am… — Marie Marvingt
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. — Jenna Bush
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which… — Sheri S. Tepper
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be — Marcus Mumford
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the… — Barbara Johnson
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question… — Sharon Salzberg
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that… — Epictetus
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change… — Jared Leto
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay… — Dee Dee Ramone
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would… — Rick Bass
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes. — Teresa of Avila

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