Failure Quote by Clarence Day

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious…

— Megan Follows

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the…

— Charles Dickens

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love…

— Anonymous

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and hardships in…

— Eric D. Huntsman

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

— Isaac of Nineveh

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is…

— Anonymous

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To…

— William Wordsworth

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

— John Milton