Top 60 Love Failing Quotes
#1. The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.
Nadeem Aslam
#2. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
Alma Alexander
#3. I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
Dave Chappelle
#4. It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
Hermann Graf Keyserling
#5. Sex is not a tryout. If she fails to live up to your expectations in the bedroom, will you love her less? If so, you can be certain you never loved her to begin with.
Jason Evert
#6. Because I'm attractive and sucessful so if I can't get a man I must be failing at something?
Jane Green
#7. ...drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart...
J.M. Synge
#8. I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
Charlie Trotter
#9. What he wanted was Megan wanting him ... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again ... and simply failing.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#10. But she is angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and everyone. Who knew love could kill you?
Anthony Doerr
#11. To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.
Cynthia Garrett
#12. [J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue
indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with.
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me ... "
"Everything", he whispered fiercely.
Paullina Simons
#14. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#15. Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
Nancy Friday
#16. It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
Joan Of Arc
#19. I never told you this enough- it's a failing between all men, I think, but too often of fathers to their sons- I love you. When you came into the world, you brought me a new purpose and a new drive. Suddenly , I was not just a parent, I was a guardian too.
Joseph D'Lacey
#20. Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.
Joe Meno
#21. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Jack Gilbert
#22. Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.
Louisa May Alcott
#24. It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.
Mary Balogh
#25. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
Eugene H. Peterson
#26. To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#27. It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
Wendell Berry
#28. Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.
Girdhar Joshi
#29. You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.
J.K. Rowling
#30. You gotta learn to love when you're failing ... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.
Stephen Colbert
#31. On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.
George Saunders
#33. By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.
Debasish Mridha
#34. If you've been banging your head against a brick wall, wipe the blood off, take a couple of pain killers and try it from another angle. Failing that, use the door.
Andy Love
#35. May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
Saint Ignatius
#36. God's love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.
Jerry Bridges
#37. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.
Denis Fitzpatrick
#38. We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane.
A.J. Compton
#39. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
Kenneth Tynan
#40. For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.
Jane Green
#41. Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.
Cesar Millan
#43. Where love fails we espy all faults.
John Ray
#44. But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
Julian Of Norwich
#45. What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.
Earl Felton
#46. How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked.
Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?"
"He'd love to!" Gary said.
Tristan shot him a look,
"Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her.
Elizabeth Chandler
#47. If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.
J.S.B. Morse
#49. I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled.
Germaine Greer
#50. People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
Bob Goff
#51. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#52. I know there's a lot of guys who would love to see me fail. Well, good. Let 'em. I'm glad.
John Daly
#53. Somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#54. It is a human failing, to attribute the best of motives to those we know the least, and the worst to those we love best.
Jacqueline Carey
#55. I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."
John Leguizamo
#56. Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand this now, I love her and I loved her in that rare way, that non-possessive and accepting way that it seems people are always trying and failing to love someone...
Catherine Lacey
#57. Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.
Paul Of The Cross
#58. She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.
Rainbow Rowell
#59. A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
John Cleese
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