Disappointment Quotes

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.

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.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (All’s Well That Ends Well)