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“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I haven't wished for many things in my life . . . I learned very early not to wish for things. Wishing just brought earned disappointment.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Then, in happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, O my friend, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse—hunger, hardship, and disappointment being . . . the unalterable law of life.” George Orwell, Animal Farm
“Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” Paulo Coelho, Brida
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains?” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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