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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)
— Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir
She looked away, trying not to cry. She hated crying, and in public she hated it more.
— Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone
Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hi,' he says.'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.'You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Comeback Season
He snuffles. Oh, no.He's not going to cry, is he? Because even though it's sweet when guys cry, I am so not prepared for this.Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
I’ll wait for you,” he said as his hand dropped to his side, as his eyes began to dim. “I think I could wait for you forever.
— T.J. Klune, Burn
... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.
— Em Bailey, Shift
...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.
— Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.
— Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an
I have never cried in the shower. That's a woman thing I think.
— Bill Callahan, Letters to Emma Bowlcut
...the terrible thought occurred to her that perhaps she'd always unconsciously believed that because Sam didn't cry, he therefore didn't feel, or he felt less, not as profoundly or deeply as she did. Her focus had always been on how his actions affected her feelings, as if his role was to do things for her, to her, and all that mattered was her emotional response to him, as if a "man" were a product or service, and she'd finally chosen the right brand to get the right response. Was it possible she'd never seen or truly loved him the way he deserved to be loved? As a person? An ordinary, flawed, feeling person?
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Hi, I'm Day.Hi, I'm June
— Marie Lu, Champion
A brother,” she said, her voice soft.The baby started to cry, a weak, garbled sound that worried the nurse. Lada’s scowl deepened. She slapped a dimpled hand over his mouth. The nurse pulled him away quickly, and Lada looked up, face contorted in rage.“Mine!” she shouted.It was her first word.The nurse laughed, shocked, and lowered the baby once more. Lada glared at him until he stopped crying. Then, apparently satisfied, she toddled out of the room.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
Little Ann," he calledI spun back, and my heart was crushed by the regret on his face. His arms were crossed. "Don't change too much." With that he looked away, and the manager directed me to the exit.
— Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril
Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.
— Jason Aaron, The Goddamned, Vol. 1: Before the Flood
See yourself while crying this is only things that no man wants.
— Yaganesh Derasari
Death gets a bad rap. People think that euthanasia is putting their pets “down” when it really is lifting us up. In the first moment, when we come back to earth, we remember the comfort of the Heaven we came from and this is why we cry when we are born. When we are born in Heaven we come in laughing not crying! In birth we have the passage and then the pain. In death we have the pain and then the passage.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Damn it, woman,” he snapped. “Stop crying. Are you hysterical?” “Maybe.” Her voice was muffled by the pillow and her hands.-Maxim & Airiana
— Christine Feehan, Air Bound
Your life is too short to cry over the misgivings of others.Embrace the loves you have and have had and smile another day.
— Grandaddy BAD
...the terrible though occurred to her that perhaps she'd always unconsciously believed that because Sam didn't cry, he therefore didn't feel, or he felt less, not as profoundly or deeply as she did. Her focus had always been on how his actions affected her feelings, as if his role was to do things for her, to her, and all that mattered was her emotional response to him, as if a "man" were a product or service, and she'd finally chosen the right brand to get the right response. Was it possible she'd never seen or truly loved him the way he deserved to be loved? As a person? An ordinary, flawed, feeling person?
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.
— Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
At that, Marty howled great big, messy sobs, and Elanor, the little lady in the yellow suit, who organized the weddings at the church, came running with a box of tissue.Oz appeared in the vestibule, looking alarmed. “Is everything all right? I thought someone was strangling a duck.”“Do you mind?” Marty snapped. “Me and the bride, here, we’re having a moment.
— Jenn McKinlay, Vanilla Beaned
I think we’ve all lost our minds a bit.” It sounded like she was fighting back tears.
— Matt Abrams, She's Toxic
Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.
— Luigina Sgarro
I don't hate you," I tell her. And I honestly don't. Because love can't be faked when magic's involved. Ivy didn't push me out of the way just to gain a soul. She didn't force anything. It was all her choice to save and lo
— Colleen Boyd, Swamp Angel
I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.
— Kaori Ozaki, The Gods Lie
What’s up, Sam?”“What birthday?” he panted.“What?”“What birthday, Anna?”It took a while for her to absorb his fear. It took a while for the reason for his fear to dawn on her.“Fifteen,” Anna said in a whisper.“What’s the matter?” Emma asked, sensing her twin’s mood. “It doesn’t mean anything.”“It doesn’t,” Anna whispered.“You’re probably right,” Sam said.“Oh, my God,” Anna said. “Are we going to disappear?”“When were you born?” Sam asked. “What time of day?”The twins exchanged scared looks. “We don’t know.”“You know what, no one has blinked out since that first day, so it’s probably—”Emma disappeared.Anna screamed.The other older kids took notice, the littles, too.“Oh, my God!” Anna cried. “Emma. Emma. Oh, God!”She grabbed Sam’s hands and he held her tight.The prees, some of them, caught the fear. Mother Mary came over. “What’s going on? You’re scaring the kids. Where’s Emma?”Anna just kept saying, “Oh, my God,” and calling her sister’s name.“Where’s Emma?” Mary demanded again. “What’s going on?”Sam didn’t want to explain. Anna was hurting him with the pressure of her fingers digging into the backs of his hands. Anna’s eyes were huge, staring holes in him.“How far apart were you born?” Sam asked.Anna just stared in blank horror.Sam lowered his voice to an urgent whisper. “How far apart were you born, Anna?”“Six minutes,” she whispered.“Hold my hands, Sam,” she said.“Don’t let me go, Sam,” she said.“I won’t, Anna, I won’t let you go,” Sam said.“What’s going to happen, Sam?”“I don’t know, Anna.”“Will we go to where our mom and dad are?”“I don’t know, Anna."“Am I going to die?”“No, Anna. You’re not going to die.”“Don’t let go of me, Sam.”Mary was there now, a baby on her hip. John was there. The prees, some of them, watched with serious, worried looks on their faces.“I don’t want to die,” Anna repeated. “I…I don’t know what it’s like.”“It’s okay, Anna.”Anna smiled. “That was a nice date. When we went out.”“It was.”For a split second it was like Anna blurred. Too fast to be real. She blurred, and Sam could almost swear that she had smiled at him.And his fingers squeezed on nothing.For a terribly long time no one moved or said anything.The littles didn’t cry out. The older kids just stared.Sam’s fingertips still remembered the feel of Anna’s hands. He stared at the place where her face had been. He could still see her pleading eyes.Unable to stop himself, he reached a hand into the space she had occupied. Reaching for a face that was no longer there.Someone sobbed.Someone cried out, other voices then, the prees started crying.Sam felt sick. When his teacher had disappeared he hadn’t been expecting it. This time he had seen it coming, like a monster in a slow-motion nightmare. This time he had seen it coming, like standing rooted on the railroad tracks, unable to jump aside.
— Michael Grant, Gone
The world looks different through a smiling face and a crying face, you know? That is, if you have the power to smile through difficult times, then you have nothing to fear. Even hell becomes heaven for you.
— Hideaki Sorachi
He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.''I'm not going to,' he said. 'I can do other things in life besides cry, you know,' although he was no longer sure that was even true.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Jackie's eyes burned. She wasn't sure if it was an allergic reaction. She couldn't remember ever feeling this sensation. She touched the corner of her eye. It was wet. There was water coming from her eyes and trickling down her cheeks, and she knew she was crying but she wasn't sure if she had ever cried before.
— Joseph Fink
They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.
— Michael  Grant, Front Lines
God Layken. How do you do it?" she says. "How do I do what?" I sniff as I continue to wipe the tears from my eyes. "How do you not fall in love with him?" The tears begin flowing just as quickly as they had ceased….."I don't not fall in love with him. I don't not fall in love with him a lot!
— Colleen Hoover, This Girl
The door slapped shut, sound echoing as Derek marched across the yard, dead on target.I looked around, desperate for an escape route, but there was none. Go forward and deal with Derek, or run back toward Simon and have to deal with both of them. I kept wa
— Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning
Make me lose control of myself,"do you really know yourself?what is happening to you?
— Jordan Hoechlin
I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I cried a little, as I am sure father must have cried sometimes when there was no one about. Perhaps his getting drunk, as he did on all possible occasions, was a way of crying too.
— Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story
I was falling for his lies until he started crying. (sighs) excuse me but I'm gonna need another bucket.
— ~forkenca~
Oh, my, god, we are in a killing room. This is just like an episode of Dexter! They are going to murder us!” Mia exclaimed as she started to cry.
— Andrea Heltsley, Dissolve
I wept for me, for my sister, for things I couldn't even begin to put into words, and might never be able to explain. But it felt something like this: I used to walk on my feet. Now all I knew how to do was crawl. And I wasn't sure how long it was going to take for me to get up off my knees and regain my balance, but I suspected that when I did, I would never walk the same way again.
— Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
It’s okay to cry, ya know. Hearts don’t break quietly.
— Ryann Jansen, Bittersweet Hope
And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.
— Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery
Live your life in such a way that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying
— Taimoor Madni
sometimes crying is needed to feel better. The pressure of life becomes so much at times that you need to relieve it.
— R.D. Cole, Learning to Heal
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
Getting responses on "Through the Milky Way" that it is creating an emotional investment by some of my readers. A gentleman I have know for awhile took the book on a vacation to the beach. While reading it, his wife came up to him and asked him why he was crying. He told her the book was sad and something he could relate to. Had others with the same response.
— J.D. Stark
Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.
— Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery
I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.
— Laura Carstairs-Waters
I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.Eating and crying.Crying and eating.
— Matt de la Pena, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth and being chased in a fun way.
— Amy Poehler
He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.
— Kevin Brockmeier, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
Stop complaining, start contributing; stop crying, start smiling; and stop criticizing, start praising.
— Vishwas Chavan
I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.
— Rachel Ward, Numbers
I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever - totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.
— Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.
— Vivien Alcock, The Mysterious Mr. Ross
What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things?" And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there, duh.
— Cara Hoffman, Be Safe I Love You
Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty
— Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick
It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.
— Shannon Hale, Forest Born
I love a book that makes me cry.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
— Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Every once in a while, a good cry is needed in order to move forward.
— Dormaine G.
HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROMAWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
— Jenny Holzer
Don't cry because first priority is happiness.
— Rohit Dhariwal
Jayden shoved through the crowd and pulled me to my feet. I hadn’t realized I was crying until he wiped a tear from my face. “What happened?
— Embee, Tess Embers
Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.
— Åsa Larsson, Sun Storm
Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.("Dial 'O' For Operator")
— Robert Presslie, Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories
You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry.“I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.“Who cares about everyone? What about me?
— Veronica Roth
You have broken my heartI am a little kid,I cannot stop cryingI hit my feet to the ground and my hands to my headLike a flyI cannot get up from the sticky groundI cannot talk about youBecause it hurtsI feel the pain inside my bonesI cannot forget youThe reality has become dream and dream has become nightmareThese are my tearsThey are not my sweatsI have not pissed on myselfEvery drop carries pain and regretThey are all because of you,You broke my virgin heart and poor soul,I thought we belonged with each otherWe shared dreams and wishesWe shared love and devotionI did not know they were all lies,If I knew you were leaving me one day, I would have loved you more than I didMaybe it would have changed your mindBecause I still love you
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Oh Josie," Samuel sighed gently. "Your heart is too tender for your own good.""I don't usually cry like this, Samuel. Geez, it's been years since I've cried like this. Since you've been back I can't seem to stop. It's like a cloud has burst inside me, and I'm caught in a constant downpour""Come here, Josie," Samuel said, and when I slid over next to him he kissed me gently on the forehead and smoothed my hair from my damp cheeks. "Well then, maybe you should go ahead and just let it rain for a while"And so I did.
— Amy Harmon, Running Barefoot
Enjoy life, even in the most chaotic, hectic moments. Take time to breathe. Take time to consider what is important versus what is rubbish. Those are the times where slowing down is healthiest. Those are the times where it really counts. And, if you come across an impossible situation, crying will not help. Open your mouth, but instead of sobs and wails, give out a little chuckle. It’ll make all the difference in your attitude and therefore, in your situation.
— Leigh Hershkovich
Crying has no potential for solving the problems!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.
— Tracy Guzeman, The Gravity of Birds
I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.
— C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.
— Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Try evolving as much as you cry.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The most unbearable moments, seeing your dear one crying and you cannot hold her because it is not allowed.
— M.F. Moonzajer
if woman cries ,it doesn't matter , but if a man cry it matter
— er.teji
My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.("Kentucky's Ghost")
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
American girls never whimper.
— Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure
Feeling of crying hard and expressing your deepest pain in the arms of your loved one is much deeper and worth experience than to have laugh and fun with your loved one.
— Shrey Srivastava
I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.
— Ally Condie, Reached
We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right?
— Madeleine L'Engle, The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
Those we love are the only ones worth crying over.
— Allie Brennan, Tight Knit
Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
There should be no crying in copyediting.
— Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in her room, her garden, walking along the shore, praying for God to send her someone to share her sorrows along with her joys.
— Laurie Alice Eakes, Lady in the Mist
He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone’s big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Divine Misdemeanors
I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.
— Darnell Lamont Walker, Book of She
Cricket’s voice broke through Thomas’s memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up. 	“Captain I don’t want to be here,” was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket’s shoulder a tight squeeze.
— Jessica Fortunato, The Sin Collector: Thomas
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
— W.B. Yeats
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
— Eric Hoffer
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
— Upton Sinclair
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
— Alain de Botton
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
— Eliza Tabor Stephenson
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.
— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
DisappointmentCan do a couple things.It can drop you into a giantsucking sinkhole ofdepression,a place you have to fightto climb out of. Or itcan trigger an epicmaniato overcome the oddsand transform failureinto success. Say youswingas high as the chains willtake you because you seekthe thrill of flight, and on theup-kick, you lose your seat.Injury is likely. But if youworry about fallingdown,and never chance "up,"the sky will remainforever out of reach.
— Ellen Hopkins
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which had been my master's --- which he had created; it shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr Rochester's arms --- it could not derive warmth from his breast. Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted -- confidence destroyed!
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)
— D.J. MacHale
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
A pier is a disappointed bridge
—  yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
— Willem Lange
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
— Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
— J.M. Coetzee, Summertime
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
— Oscar Wilde
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
— Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air.These people do not live at my house.
— Amy Petrie Shaw, The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings
Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets
What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..
— ehddah
Frustration often steers you to the right path.
— Joyce Rachelle
Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America
I was the one thing he had to deny-- the beautiful truth within his terrible lie.-who knew such a young heart could shatter?
— Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One
The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.
— Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet
My husband has never been one to catch the subtleties of a situation. He called every Valentine's Day to ask if I wanted him to stop on the way home to get a card. Every year I said no, don't bother, and he'd say something like, "Okay, but I want to go on record I asked, so you can't say I'm not romantic." I never did point out that any chance the gesture had of being romantic was lost when he asked whether he had to do it.
— Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life
I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.
— Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them
Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.
— Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
How could I known then that failure then that failure of ambition is like a long lingering death and that disappoint with your life never goes away? It only grows stronger with the passage of time as the clock ticks off the remaining days of your life, and any residual, hope slips like sand through arthritic fingers.
— Peter May
I am sorry
—  I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.
Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.
— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
These days people are so mean that they even try to get rid of their shadows sometimes.
— Neetesh Dixit
It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.
— Xo, Doc, I Failed? I Failed, Doc
Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.
— Matt Abrams, She's Toxic
Most empty promises are a result of excitement.
— Cyc Jouzy
Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.
— Amit  Pandey, The Retro Man
Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.
— Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.
— Samuel Rutherford
No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
What do you do when you wait too long only to be disappointed? Get on with it my mate, the clocks are ticking and they ain't goin' na pack 'emselves up.
— Diana Jaber
One of the speechless situations is when the people you admire, people you follow, people you look forward to standby you and support you, people you are dedicated towards and people whom you consider self made and respectable, stand helpless in front of you when others cut you into pieces.They keep standing, they fumble, they are helpless.And you're just disappointed
— Himmilicious
Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!
— HarryKrishna
By the time, another disappointment reaches me .... I'll be buried!
— HarryKrishna
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
— Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.
— Jack London, Martin Eden
What do you know about insurance fraud?”I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.
— Roberta Pearce, Famous Penultimate Words
Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect
— Jane Green, Summer Secrets
The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that as he drove his car back down the coast toward Boston, toward his wife with whom he had raised three children, that something in him would be satisfied to have witnessed her the way he had tonight, and she understood that this form of comfort was true for many people, as it made Malcolm feel better to call Walter Dalton a pathetic fairy, but it was thin milk, this form of nourishment; it could not change that you had wanted to be a concert pianist and ended up a real estate lawyer, that you had married a woman and stayed married to her for thirty years, when she did not ever find you lovely in bed.
— Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.
— Lord Crunkington III
There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.
— Robert J. Braathe
Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.
— Kathleen Rice Adams, Prodigal Gun
It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.
— Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all—on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.
— Lindsay Armstrong, The Seduction Stakes
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
— Rashida Jones
Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.
— Lauren Dane, Once and Again
Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.
— Katie Kiesler, Because I Love You
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. 	There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .
— John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?
— Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.)
— Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments
Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.
— Ainslie Hogarth
Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
I have come to realize that we are born and we die and that the word 'freedom' is a man's greatest lie.
— Harley Mei Kent
We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.
— Alfred Hayes, In Love
If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. It’s a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a jury and condemned by a judge…all three being you. We imprison ourselves when we allow outside negative circumstances and people dictate who we are. You can dwell in that cell…but only you can exonerate you. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.
— Heenashree Khandelwal
He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down.
— Joe Dunthorne, Wild Abandon
The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.
— Ron Brackin
it's weird how we try our best to build our lives , and then we simply fall in love with the wrong person who destroys everything we happen to give years to build and the real problem is sometimes we don't even mind!
— O.R. girl
She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.
— Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets
It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always…a disappointment.
— Alethea Black, I Knew You'd Be Lovely
Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.
— Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.
— Star trekek The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.
— Shannon L. Alder
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
— Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
— John  Williams, Stoner
Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!
— Laurence Stuart, Integrated Business Communication in a Global Marketplace
Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences.
— Femi Olalekan Erejuwa Komolafe
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
— Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.
— Nora Roberts, Born in Fire
I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.
— Alyson Hagy, Boleto
So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired and miserable about all the things that Denys should have said and done and hadn't. At the end of the dance there was one awful moment when she was bored. She didn't want to go and be kissed in the garden, she didn't want to drink any more, and Denys was in no mood for conversation; what was there to do? She was bored. It was a terrible, treacherous thought to feel like that when you were with someone you loved.
— Monica Dickens, Mariana
Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to this city's asylum, suffering from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a madness of anticipation, disappointment and delusion.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice?....u've been DISSAPPOINTED
— DonRichie
The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down on him. He made it clear that Shahid was one of these disappointments.
— John Lanchester, Capital
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
— Bill Watterson
I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.
— Ally Condie, Reached
He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.
— Pete Wentz, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
— Alain de Botton
God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed
— Aleatha Romig, Consequences
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
— John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
— Joan D. Vinge, Psion
cynicism springs from disappointments in love.
— Marty Rubin
Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent.
— Tom Perrotta, Little Children