Quotes on Bitter Disappointment

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.