Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Disappointment Quotes, Stage Quotes

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Stage Quotes

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Depression Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Stars Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Dream Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Art Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , People Quotes

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Art Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Memories Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Fall Quotes

Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Dream Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Winning Quotes