Failure Quote by George Eliot

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of…

— Honore de Balzac

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape,…

— Aldous Huxley

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain…

— Richard Steele

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

— Henry Louis Mencken

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages…

— Mark Twain

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

— Ihara Saikaku

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and…

— Orville Dewey

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

— Anonymous

Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is…

— Anonymous

“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves…

— Rainer Maria Rilke