#disappointments

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#aspirations #bitterness #disappointments #hope #life

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that. ↗

— Shania Twain

#big #crises #deep #disappointments #emotional

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

— Blanka Vlasic

#disappointments #future #make #person #sometimes

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#being #celebrity #disappointments #discover #had

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#anything #arts #being #belief #devotes

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#appear #blessings #disappointments #figures #let us

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. ↗

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

#disappointments #doing #i #music #next

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. ↗

— Michael Landon

#expectations #giant #i #just #lead

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role. ↗

— Lee Majors

#always #better #came #disappointments #either