Failed Quotes

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An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds… — Alice Munro
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman… — Lucille Clifton
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate… — Herbert Marcuse
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? — Don Marquis
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti
My past is everything I failed to be. — Fernando Pessoa
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. — Kenneth Oppel
I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who… — Sarah Dessen
Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone… — Janet Fitch
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave — Bob Dylan
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be… — Ezra Pound
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and… — Cynthia Rylant
Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir — Carrie Fisher
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such… — Thomas Hardy

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