Disappointing Quotes

“Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Magic never seemed to be much use at doing the things you wanted done in a reasonable time frame.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.”
― Caroline Hanson, Love Is Mortal

“We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II

“You can let go. I'm not going to stab you.'

'I find that oddly disappointing.'

'And I find that extremely disturbing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.”
― David Levithan, Another Day

“I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don’t change. My reading of them changes—I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you’ve been before, and it welcomes you back.”
― David Levithan, Another Day

“Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.”
― Muditha Champika, Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science

“The most disappointing of the jobs I had was the ‘Green’ solar photovoltaic industry. I had three jobs in the field. Two of them had a constant pressure to work very long hours. I remember my neighbor commenting that he would see me leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark! One of the jobs had completely overloaded me with the work of many workers and refused my daily requests for more staff! I left the ‘Green’ industry and have never pursued another job in it.”
― Steven Magee