Skip to content

Failure Quote by Charles de Lint

Download Open image

““She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.””

Charles de Lint

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Failure Time

More by Charles de Lint

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and…

Charles de Lint

Image

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone…

Charles de Lint

Image

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Charles de Lint

Image

“Maybe she couldn’t go. Maybe she wanted him to stay. But she knew enough not to try to hold him back if he had…

Charles de Lint

Image

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles de Lint

Image

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

Charles de Lint

Image

“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run…

Charles de Lint

Image

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the…

Charles de Lint

Image

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the…

Charles de Lint

Image

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charles de Lint

Image

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the…

Charles de Lint

Image

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have;…

Charles de Lint

Image

Explore all 237 Charles de Lint quotes

More Failure quotes

When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

Image

Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,…

Image

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Image

“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might…

Image

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle…

Image

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Image

First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

Image

God's love never fail :)

Image

Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve…

Charlaine Harris

Image

“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

Image

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

Image

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Image

Browse all 27,122 Failure quotes