Failure Quote by Émile Zola

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the…

— Victor Hugo

“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He…

— Edith Wharton

“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in…

— Ron Hansen

“Men must either be caressed or else destroyed.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“He divided the inhabitants of this world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was a horrible…

— Thornton Wilder

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“Concerning this, it should be noted that men must be either caressed or wiped out; because they will avenge minor injuries, but cannot do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments…

— Joseph Heller

“He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with the knuckles…

— Edna Ferber

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien