It's so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.
When all else fails, philosophize.
For he was quite happy, he assured her—perfectly happy, though he had never done a thing that they talked of; his whole life had been a failure.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
A man may take a drink because he feels himself to be a failure and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
He who hesitates is usually failed.
My chest tightens, suffocating under the threat of failure.