#disappoint

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ↗

— Eliza Tabor Stephenson

#disappointment

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#disappoint #forgive #josephine #life #out-of-love

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. ↗

— Mary Karr

#hope #youth #youth

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#been #disappointed #done #i #justice

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live. ↗

— Eric Bana

#bitterly #disappointing #how #live #normally

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human ↗

— MKF - Screwed Life

#disappointment #love #pain #life

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. ↗

— Julia Glass

#disappointment