“I dislike talk of the Gods, who taunt us with their promises, and whose disappointments we must always accept.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

“Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”

Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“In the tradition of Abudhar, who is my mentor, whose thought, whose understanding of Islam and Shi'ism, and whose ideals, wants, and rage I emulate, I begin my talk with the name of the God of the oppressed (mustad'afan). My topic is very specific.”

Ali Shariati (1933–1977) Iranian academic and activist

“Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

“But we must accept the challenge that all of us in democratic governments face: to listen to the voices who disagree with us; to have an open debate about how we use our powers and how we must constrain them; and to always remember that government exists to serve the power of the individual, and not the other way around. That’s what makes us who we are, and that’s what makes us different from those on the other side of the wall.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America