Disappointment Quotes - Page 9

If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d’s; delay, denial and disappointment

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all led to disaster. Being alone was better than shattered and broken like mother: disenchanted with the life she’d been forced into.

Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.

I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.

God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.

It is better to hope than despair.

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him, there will be no unfulfilled longings or disappointments. He will welcome me into His mansion, answer my questions, and teach me the wisdom of the ages.

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

May God give comfort to the suffering souls.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down.

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)

I keep my hope alive.