“… recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void…”

“One cannot continually disappoint a Continent.”

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

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

“Damned to continued disappointment are they who dream only of their own happiness over that of others.”

“I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.”

“It is seldom given to philosophers to enter into one another's enthusiasms, but they are sometimes allowed to share a disappointment. And could anything be more generally disappointing than the attitude of a certain important group of natural philosophers toward the study of minds?”

“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”

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

“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”