Disappointment Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disappointment
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In life we must accept the fact that there are going to be disappointments, but we must also never shy away from that fact… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fear of not being good enough, the fear of disappointing other people and the fear of failure can really hurt one's personality and… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image