Coincidence Quote by George Eliot

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility…

— Tom Robbins

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive…

— Honore de Balzac

“Disappointment over love affairs, generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn…

— Napoleon Hill

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so…

— Thomas Hardy

The biggest disappointments in our lives are often the result of misplaced expectations. This is especially true when it comes to our relationships and…

— Melchor Lim

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

— William Matthews

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

— Albert Einstein

“The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure,…

— Frederick Nietzsche

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

— Abigail Adams

“I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used... You are quite certain, my friend, as you…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

“The lover who is certain of an equal return of affection, is surely the happiest of men; but he who is a prey to…

— John C. Kirkland