Failure Quote by Robert Beatty

“There was something of the beautiful failure about her.”

— Colum McCann

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“She weeps, like all the weak people in the world, for the lost days, for the way things once were and will never be…

— Thomas Cullinan

“She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to…

— Lorraine Heath

“She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.”

— Euripides

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

— Alice McDermott

“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

— Grace Metalious

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and history and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he…

— Lev Grossman

“She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.”

— Allison Brennan