Top 1200 Bitter Disappointment Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

To a certain extent, I think I've tried to train myself to not dive too deep into things or get my hopes too way up, because the fear of disappointment and whatnot is only natural.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.

By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

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

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

endless hope, endless disappointment.

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money in modern football.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.