disappointment, n.Definitions

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Disappointment is a dark mountain through which one must carve a tunnel of hope.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Disappointment is accompanied always by its compensation, which we shall find if we will be quiet and ready enough.

Disappointment is a feeling in regard to the past that comes to every one on the Thirty-first of each December.

Disappointment is, along with suffering and melancholy, there to mature and transfigure us: Not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity.

Disappointment is what makes the spirit grow old. The master never expects results, thus is never disappointed, he is never disappointed, thus his spirit never grows old.

A Disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do, the situation being what it is.