“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”

“There is no disappointment so numbing… as someone no better than you achieving more.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

“The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity”

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”

“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

“There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.”

“Don't let what your parents do disappoint you.”

“Therefore, you must never be disappointed in life and you must remember that what even God cannot achieve, you can achieve through hard work. Karma is a thing, which can even change the course laid down by God.”