Failure Quote by Park Wansuh

“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The…

— Ryu Murakami

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of…

— Vasily Grossman

“The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible…

— Paul Leppin

“As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He was no longer a wildfire burning with rage. He was now the fires of the forges he'd stoked. He burned for a purpose…

— Elise Kova

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“He leaned his head against the rock. Christ, when was the last time he’d seen the humor in life? And now, of all places,…

— Angela Quarles

“It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind — but it had hurt his heart.”

— Stephen King

“He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They…

— Robert Jordan

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live.…

— Robin Hobb