Sentence examples for felt a failure from inspiring English sources

"I felt a failure as a woman".

By nine, the prodigy felt a failure when a conservatoire professor told him he had no talent.

We felt a failure if we didn't manage this alongside our teaching load and were told off if we couldn't provide evidence for what we were doing.

But by the mid-90s he felt a failure, as if he'd been writing in a vacuum rather than producing "the work of transparency and beauty and obliqueness that I wanted to write".

"There was me as a kid going: 'Why does nothing happen in life like it does in books?' And actually there is all this stuff going on and nobody tells you," he says, gleefully, recounting stories of his bookish childhood when he'd climb drainpipes because that was what kids did in the stories he read, and felt "a failure for not having discovered something with my chemistry set".

"I felt a failure," he admits.

I didn't feel a failure, though.

So does he feel a failure?

"I'm here to make you feel a failure".

I do not want to feel a failure about something beyond my control.

There's nothing like a self-help book to make you feel a failure.