Quotes on “disappointment”

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

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

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.