Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

It never failed—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
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’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
We’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 old— This… — Edgar Allan Poe
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’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
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with… — Barbara Kingsolver
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. — Jim Butcher
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around… — Emma Donoghue
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. — Stephenie Meyer
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the… — Deborah Harkness
Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions. — Michael Marshall Smith
Design cannot rescue failed content. — Edward Tufte

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