23 Quotes Tagged: giving-up

"I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible."

"That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave."

"There is one that will drown me."

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

Those who cry out the truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent or come to doubt their own wit.

"Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out."

Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Every flower blooms at its own pace.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.