“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.”
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“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”
― The Nature of Jade
― The Nature of Jade
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
― The Descendants
― The Descendants
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
― Homecoming
― Homecoming
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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