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Letter "D" » Disappointment
«Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom»
«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
«Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.»
«I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody.»
«Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Disappointment
| Keywords:
disappointments, thunder
«I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.»
«Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.»
«Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.»
«Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Disappointment,
Maturity
| Keywords:
disappointment, maturity
«People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.»
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