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Quotes about People Letting You Down

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

When you feel that someone has let you down, you feel that a trust has been broken. Feeling that you have been let down is a terrible feeling. Let these quotes help you to deeply touch your feelings of disappointment and betrayal, and then to move past those feelings.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

I won't miss you. I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- John Dos Passos

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
- Anonymous

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
- Russian Proverb

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Are you angry that others disappoint you?
remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry.
I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.
- Lisa Marie Presley

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
- Oprah Winfrey

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- Plato

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
- William James

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
- Catherine Ponder

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings,
but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
- Norman Vincent Peale

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling Let Down Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
- Blaise Pascal

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
- Martha Beck

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
- Larry David

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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