Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter.
~
Shirley
by
Charlotte Bronte
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
~
Vivian Grey
by
Benjamin Disraeli
"There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
~
Daniel Deronda
by
George Eliot
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
~
Daniel Deronda
by
George Eliot
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~
Northanger Abbey
by
Jane Austen
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
~
Mansfield Park
by
Jane Austen