Disappointed Quotes

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT IS WINNING ALL THE BATTLES THEN LOSING THE WAR”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Don't set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.”
― Blanche Ebbutt, Don'ts for Wives

“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“To be thankful for one thing is infinitely more powerful than to be bitter about a hundred others.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we stand for nothing we will likely become nothing and subsequently achieve nothing, for nothing can only breed more of itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Better to pay more for superior work and be delighted, than less for inferior effort and be disappointed.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“I've been on my knees for you. If you want me there again, just ask. But if you expect an apology while I'm down there, you'll be disappointed. At least in that regard.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.”
― Iris Murdoch, Nice & the Good

“There are moments when disappointment comes to seek your soul as musicians do with notes, and the more these are wide and deep, the more a single word or gesture is enough to make music resonate within you that you would never want to hear.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Don’t think for a moment that there’s nothing to be learned from the people who’ve failed us. For some of the greatest lessons that we’ve been granted are from those who showed us how ‘not’ to do something. And we’d be wise to remember that some of those people are us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every year I am so disappointed not to get a Nobel Prize!”
― Steven Magee

“Only a good player knows... what it takes to reach there...”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Of course I fear the journey. For if I didn’t, I’d be left with the horribly disappointing sense that it was never big enough. And if there’s something I should fear, that would be it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dia directed her grudge towards that book, which only provided a modest explanation.

For some reason, it was always like that. Things always didn’t work out—

—and here she thought she would finally be able to impress Noin…”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“In the dictionary of those who do not expect anything, there is no expression like ‘shattered expectations.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Only you don’t change, Omar. You’re still a wreck. Look at your clothes, your hair…the hour you arrive at home. Now you have no father, you should look for a job and stop with this idle lunacy. Your father couldn’t bear looking at you like this. He couldn’t bear watching your life thrown away.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“A decision she made,
To fly
Not to fall by.”
― Dania Irshad, Ecstasy

“Don't be disappointed at any point you meet yourself in life. Always know that God have a better plan for you.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“You could have broken it,' Alis snarled, those sharp teeth mere inches from my face. 'All you had to do was say that you loved him- say that you loved him and mean it with your whole useless human heart, and his power would have been freed. You stupid, stupid girl.'

No wonder Lucien had resented me and yet still tolerated my presence- no wonder he'd been so bitterly disappointed when I left, had argued with Tamlin to let me stay longer. 'I'm sorry,' I said, my eyes burning.

Alis snorted. 'Tell that to Tamlin. He had only three days after you left before the forty-nine years were over. Three days, and he let you go.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“That half smiled danced on his mouth. 'Well?'

'As much as I'd like to see you attempt to lick off a week's worth of dirt, sweat, and blood...' His eyes gleamed with the challenge, and I laughed again. 'Normal bath, please.'

He had the nerve to look vaguely disappointed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“So you love him because he loves you,' said Nicholas, disappointed at the lack of romance in this reply.

'That doesn't sound like a good reason to love someone?”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“It's sad because everyone turns out exactly how they promised they never would.”
― Pixelated

“I am still learning how to go back and re-read my chapters without feeling like I want to set all my pages on fire.”
― E.V. Rogina

“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”
― Haruki Murakami

“You ever get so disappointed in somebody that it doesn't even hurt? You don't feel anything at all.
It's just like 'That's how it is, huh?”
― Kalen Dion