Emotional Failure Quotes

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.