Quotes about Being Let Down

the failure of hope has a name: it is called suffering.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Money lost, little lost.
Honor lost, much lost.
Pluck lost, all lost.

You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made- they are assets of incomparable value.

It was not so much shame that I experienced as the feeling that the actual world was an unfamiliar organism utterly unlike the world of my imagination. I was assailed by a sensation of desolation more intense than anything I had previously known, as if I had been abandoned at dusk in an autumnal wasteland where no answering sound would ever come, however often I called. Is that, I wonder, what is meant by the pat phrase "disappointed love"?

People have lost something important they took for granted, and that loss leaves them devastated.

Defeat takes the form of ultimate disillusion — a disgust with the "futility of endless pursuit."

Regret is a spiritual scar.

Abandon hope.

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

When you get so down that you can't get up, and you want so much but you're all out of luck
When you're so downhearted and misunderstood, just over and over and over, you could...

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…