War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. Robert Fisk
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. Nigel Farage
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. Anton Webern
When I returned to China [from the United States], I didn't have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure. Ai Weiwei
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. Christian Marclay
Defeat is not failure but trail is total failure. African Proverb