Disappointment Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disappointment
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may not part until you have promised… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“What to Accept The fact of mountains. The actuality Of any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid people, While restraining one's natural impulse To murder them. The change from your dollar, Be it no more than a penny, For without a pretense of universal penury There can be no honor between rich and poor. Love,… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share
“The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock;… — John Williams Copy Share
“I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
“Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war. Now, life is a journey, and I am a warrior. Prepared for anything and weakened by nothing. There are hills and dales, mountains and plateaus, blind spots and brilliant vistas, but none of that matters. All that matters is my second chance, and the only thing… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share
“The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.” — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“The paths to mountain peaks are ever rugged, but men reach the summits.” — Percy James Brebner Copy Share Image
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen 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