Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

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
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.… — Richard Wright
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two… — Joseph Heller
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines… — Haruki Murakami
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… — John Fowles
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her… — Gaston Leroux
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical… — Bertrand Russell
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we… — C.S. Lewis
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you… — Tite Kubo

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