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  • You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

  • Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to.

  • The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

    Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK
  • First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

  • Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

  • A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012
  • Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.48, Courier Corporation
  • Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

    Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK
  • It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

    "Epidicus". Book by Plautus, V, 2, 52; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922),
  • I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

  • Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

    "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.
  • You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

    "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.
  • Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”
  • But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

    Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.43, Allison & Busby
  • We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015
  • For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

    Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press
  • Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

  • Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  • There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

    Love   Life   Sad  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

    Ilona Andrews (2009). “On the Edge”, p.31, Penguin
  • Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

  • In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr
  • Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

    W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books
  • Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  • Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.
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