There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Sometimes I sit down and I think 'Do I regret this? Do I regret that?' And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it's good because it just means that it's something that's affected you enough for you to stop and think... There's a reason that everything happens.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

There were a lot of things that my parents could not do or afford. And when they put all that dreams into me and when I could not fulfill them, I felt very disappointed. And that was the only reason I wanted to dance with an artificial leg.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.