~ Amy Newak
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
~Famke Janssen
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
~Michael Bergin
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~Maximilian Schell
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
~Jack Levine
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
~Lord Byron
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
~Murray Gell Mann
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
~Simon Newcomb
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes
~ Thomas Hardy
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
~Laurence Olivier
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~Geezer Butler
If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
~ Pythagoras
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
~Bruno Bettelheim
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment but you have to be positive.
~Jean Alesi
I give and give, even when I get nothing back and that sets me up for disappointment.
~Angie Stone
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
~Benjamin Britten