Disappointment Quotes Page 2

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
~Arthur Helps


He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
~ P.G. Wodehouse


If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say Just what I expected, if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
~ Amy Wilson Carmichael


God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
~Henry Ward Beecher


All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
~ Norman MacDonald



Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher



He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
~Arabian Proverb

Disappointment is often the salt of life.
~Theodore Parker

I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose.
~Woodrow Wilson


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
~Kurt Vonnegut

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
~Robert Goheen

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~Voltaire


It isn't for the moment we are struck that we need courage, but for the long uphill battle to faith, sanity, and security.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
~ Otomo No Yakamochi

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~Cyril Connolly


Encourage one another, day after day, as long as it is still called today.
~Hebrews 3:13

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~Elbert Hubbard