Failed Quotes

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I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was… — Jonathan Nolan
Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then… — Brandon Sanderson
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be… — Charlotte Bronte
Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up. — Richelle Mead
It never failedâ€”I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd… — MaryJanice Davidson
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and… — Patrick Rothfuss
Iâ€™m not going to die because I failed as someone else. Iâ€™m going to succeed as myself. — Margaret Cho
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of… — Mordecai Richler
Weâ€™re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me,… — Jennifer Donnelly
My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether… — George R. R. Martin
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew oldâ€” This… — Edgar Allan Poe
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didnâ€™t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is… — Jennifer Egan
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas… — Anne Lamott
I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there… — John Connolly
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from… — Paullina Simons
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in… — Jennifer Crusie
God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me. — Joyce Meyer

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