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Letter "D" » disappointment
«It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.»
Author: Benjamin Britten
(Composer)
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, cruel, disappointment, everlasting, loneliness, monotony, satisfied
«If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life? that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment? that would be the perfect state.»
Author: Cate Blanchett
(Actress)
| Keywords:
be on, brink, disappointment, excitement, expectation, Great Expectations, My Way
«How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.»
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
| About:
Disappointment,
Heart,
Suffering
| Keywords:
disappointment, earthly, extremities, extremity, felicities, felicity, revealed, trained
«How disappointment tracks the steps of hope»
«Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.»
Author: William Bridges
| Keywords:
disappointment, disenchantment, minor, shock, signal, signaling, transition, transitions
«Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
alphabet, alphabets, chickens, disappointment, discovers, educational, forbidden, leap, letters, letter of the alphabet, royal, royal blue, unreasonable
«I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
along, came, disappointment, imagine, married, wanted
«If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
be quiet, compensation, compensations, disappointment, enough, Get Ready, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, readiest, ready, readying, shall
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
cures, disappointed, disappointment, effect, exclamation, expectation, expects, other than, peevish, producing, sentence
«It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Maki»
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