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When you think
of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don
Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not
yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being
let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was
cherished so long and lay so deep!
-- Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist,
Political Writer
It's precisely
the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and
therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
-- Max Frisch
1911-1991, Swiss Playwright,
Novelist
Disappointment
is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that
expends too much in hope and expectation.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is
as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the
mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
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There can be
no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black
Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Blessed is the
man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed
was the ninth beatitude.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet,
Critic, Translator
The prompter
the refusal, the less the disappointment.
-- Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer
The man who
appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely
disappointed.
-- Source Unknown
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