Failure Quote by William Styron

“We start off in childhood believing parents might have access to a superior kind of knowledge and experience. They look, for a while, astonishingly…

— Alain de Botton

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are…

— James Allen

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

“I don't have sympathy for people who wrap themselves in injury caused by their inability to deal with personal inadequacies and refusal to learn…

— Nikki Mills

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“Sympathy: That self-delusional feeling of assuming that someone you know, who is ignorant, depressed, frustrated, and losing much in life, and maybe even terribly…

— Robin Sacredfire

“the shock of waking up to the fact that the world does not also belong to you; the shame at having been so naive…

— Carina Chocano

“As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet…

— Laurence J. Peter