hope-disappointment quotes

• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. (Thomas Hardy) [hope-disappointment]
• 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) [hope-disappointment/love/time/think]
• Suspense is worse than disappointment. (Robert Burns) [hope-disappointment]
• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. () [hope-disappointment]
• Suspense is worst than disappointment. (Robert Burns) [hope-disappointment]
• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [hope-disappointment/youth]
• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [understanding/time/hope-disappointment/loss]
• The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn. (Germaine Greer) [thing/hope-disappointment/society]
• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer) [hope-disappointment/]
• Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. (Samuel Johnson) [hope-disappointment/shame/loss/mind]
• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. (Martin Luther King) [hope-disappointment/love]
• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King) [hope-disappointment]
• Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. (Charles Lamb) [curiosity/feeling/hope-disappointment]
• The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. () [hope-disappointment]
• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. (Henry David Thoreau) [silence/acts/hope-disappointment/painter]
• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. (Henry David Thoreau) [willpower/find/hope-disappointment]
• I give and give, even when I get nothing back-and that sets me up for disappointment. (Angie Stone) [give/give/hope-disappointment]
• “It was a big disappointment right after the match. Even during, at certain times.” (Mary Pierce) [hope-disappointment/right]
• “It's obviously extremely disappointing to have to play my sister in the next round. But I can't tell you the disappointment. Hopefully one of us will be in the quarters and we'll just have to go from there.” (Serena Williams) [hope-disappointment/willpower]
• I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. (Tom Baker) [time/rest/hope-disappointment]
• A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. (Michael Bergin) [hope-disappointment]
• No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? (Christian Bale) [hope-disappointment]
• I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive. (Jean Alesi) [hope-disappointment]
• The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. (Robert Kiyosaki) [desire/hope-disappointment]

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