Failure Quote by Charlie Jane Anders

“But how can anyone truly understand another’s suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died?”

— Amy Tan

“We cannot heal the wounds we do not feel.”

— S.R. Smalley

“Like a hurt that’ll never heal. I’m understanding that kind of pain more and more”

— Marcy McKay

“The perfect wound was one that was not mortal, debilitating, or disfiguring, but that was bad enough to get you out.”

— Mark Bowden

“accept the fact that wounds, some wounds, do not heal; that things, some things, don’t work out, and that not everyone is spared.”

— Claudia Serrano

“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be bad and understand the good. Rather than being good and understanding bad.”

— V B Eudaimonia

“But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”

— Lemony Snicket

“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.”

— Matt Haig

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”

— Adam Levin

“What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?”

— Madeleine Thien