Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never
be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way
people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back -
and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles
that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents
God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho
It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves -
even though we did our best -
and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
If love is the answer,
could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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