Disappointment Quotes

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!”

Never burn your fingers to snuff another’s candle.

From a fallen tree, make kindling.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success.