Failure Quote by Salman Rushdie

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“life of service and humility, of silent subordination and religious training, from which he wrested intellectual pleasures congruent with his”

— Thomas Mann

“Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.”

— Charles Portis

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided…

— Jane Austen

“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book…

— Nikolai Gogol

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who…

— Anthony Stevens