“People are only ‘disappointing’ when one makes a wrong diagnosis.” — Charlotte Mew, Letter to Mrs Sappho (Catherine Dawson Scott) (01917-06-24)
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“Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
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“Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.” — Iris Murdoch, The Bell
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“I don’t do direct revenge. But I’d like to think my enemies will wake up one morning in twenty or thirty years – not devastated, not ruined …just a little disappointed that their lives hadn’t turned out quite as well as they’d hoped.” — Don Paterson, The Fall at Home
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“From 70 on, one’s death can no longer be viewed as a surprise; a disappointment, yes, but not a surprise.” — Joseph Epstein, “Kid Turns 70,” The Weekly Standard (2007-01-29)
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“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
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“A person who expects the world to be logical is bound to be disappointed.” — Michael Wade, Random Thoughts
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“There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.” — George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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