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“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.”

Firsts Night Wish Born Land Lays Disappointment Yesterday Subtle Egypt Chill Doom Corpses One Night Glowing Starks Revive Blooming

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.”

Children Wish Grows Parent Growing Up Objects Disappointment Bitter Bitter Disappointment

Author:Queen Victoria

“Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.”

Firsts Long Wish Path Lessons Overcoming Disappointment

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.”

Life Life Is Wish Grief Objects Consequence Disappointment Petty Incidents

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.”

Source: Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

“Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.”

Past Suffering Wish Imagination Assuming Disappointment Resignation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche