Falling Into Failure: Falling into Failure

The book Before I fall by Lauren Oliver has a character in it who commits suicide because she feels like there is nobody in the world who understands and is there for her. She comes to the conclusion that her only option is to kill herself because she can't live up to the expectations of the world without failing.

In the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair the family comes to America to gain all of the riches they were promised they could find in this great country. But there came a point where they failed so much that they quit trying to be successful and sunk doing degrading things like becoming whores to get by. All because of their fear to experience any more devasting failures. They just gave up hope.

Quotes

"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens."
-Chuck Palahnuik

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try."
-Unknown

"He who plans to fail, fails to plan."
-Chinese Proverbs

"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."
-George Carlin

"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
-Unknown

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
-Elbert Hubbard

"I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten."
-The Notebook

“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
-Unknown

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
-Bill Cosby

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
-Robert A. Heinlein

Falling Into Failure

Monday, April 25, 2011

Falling into Failure

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