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“The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.”
― Darin Strauss

“I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe

“Sometimes I do what I say I’m going to do, but more often I don’t. It’s a failing. The least of my failings, and the only one I feel up to admitting at the moment.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.”
― Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

“She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Don't let your failures define you.
Let them refine you.”
― Callie Khouri

“Mostly, I enjoy my failings. Until I don't.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

“It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.

It is the failing of his lifetime.”
― Kim Wright, City of Darkness

“Every failure was a stepping stone towards a greater success.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn’t pay to publicly point out the failings of the person providing your paycheck.”
― Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

“I once was a man with promise and potential. Then doubt whispered in my ear and I became less than I could have been, all because I listened and believed.”
― B J Huculak

“Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Charming Quirks of Others

“Comedy sees all our flaws, and foibles, and failings, and still doesn't hate us for them.”
― Steve Kaplan, The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny

“A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people but it's the unintended wounds I claim now as children.”
― Saeed Jones, Alive at the End of the World

“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia