Failure Quote by John Cheever

“She saw how the skim of filth, which was despair, which was hopelessness, fell like soot on the lives of the poor.”

— Alice McDermott

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”

— Zane Grey

“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”

— Robert Beatty

“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her…

— David Goodis

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

— Charles Dickens

“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,”

— Sinclair Lewis

“One of the worst things that happened to her was that she was put on a pedestal which didn’t allow her to develop in…

— Andrew Morton

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“She sucks up attention like it's a precious commodity”

— J a Huss