#disappointment

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ↗

— Eliza Tabor Stephenson

#disappointment

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life ↗

— James De Mille

#disappointment #horror #misfortune #sadness #life

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human ↗

— MKF - Screwed Life

#disappointment #love #pain #life

Suspense is worse than disappointment. ↗

— Robert Burns

#suspense #than #worse

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#disappointment #feel #fighting #handful #hope

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#disappointments #future #make #person #sometimes

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#bitter #could #disappointment #exists #laughter

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#around #behind #corner #days #disappointments

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps