Deep Disappointment Quotes:

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Life, Sad, Disappointed Love, Life Disappointment

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

- Benjamin Britten

source: Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

topic: Strength, Music, Beauty, Music Life, Musical Life

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Infinite Beauty, Infinite Hope

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Dream, Life Disappointment, Success Is Measured

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

- Maximilian Schell

topic: Love, Disappointment, Firsts, Deep Disappointment, Bitter Disappointment

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Integrity, Character, Government, Social Equality, Injustice In The World

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Color, Judging, People, Good Character, Social Equality

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

- Marion D. Hanks

topic: Disappointment, Evil, Bravery, Deep Disappointment, True Courage

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

source: W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.30, Oxford University Press

topic: Disappointment, Ignorance, Simple, Deep Disappointment

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Disappointment, Winning, People, Overreaction, Disillusionment

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Art, Disappointment, Acting, Deep Disappointment

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Children, Pain, Disappointment, Deep Disappointment

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

- Sarah Moore Grimke

source: Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in "The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition" by Gerda Lerner, Editorial Oxford University Press, (p. 241), 1998.

topic: Hope, Disappointment, Discipline, Deep Disappointment