diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_quoted.tsx b/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_quoted.tsx
index d66d70d86ea..ed869a79ed0 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_quoted.tsx
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/components/status_quoted.tsx
@@ -275,6 +275,41 @@ export const QuotedStatus: React.FC<QuotedStatusProps> = ({
         </LearnMoreLink>
       </>
     );
+  } else if (quoteState === 'pending_delayed') {
+    quoteError = (
+      <>
+        <FormattedMessage
+          id='status.quote_error.pending_delayed'
+          defaultMessage='Post pending - Delayed'
+        />
+        <LearnMoreLink>
+          <p>
+            <FormattedMessage
+              id='status.quote_error.pending_delayed_popout.body'
+              defaultMessage="We're retrying verification of this quote in the background. This usually resolves on its own."
+            />
+          </p>
+        </LearnMoreLink>
+      </>
+    );
+  } else if (quoteState === 'verification_failed') {
+    quoteError = (
+      <>
+        <FormattedMessage
+          id='status.quote_error.verification_failed'
+          defaultMessage='Quote verification failed'
+        />
+        <LearnMoreLink>
+          <p>
+            <FormattedMessage
+              id='status.quote_error.verification_failed_popout.body'
+              defaultMessage="We're failed to verify this quote. This quote is unlikely to be shown due to this failure."
+            />
+          </p>
+        </LearnMoreLink>
+      </>
+    );
+
   } else if (quoteState === 'revoked') {
     quoteError = (
       <FormattedMessage
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json b/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json
index 5d244c98c6c..c72e198fed5 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/en.json
@@ -1280,7 +1280,11 @@
   "status.quote_error.not_available": "Post unavailable",
   "status.quote_error.pending_approval": "Post pending",
   "status.quote_error.pending_approval_popout.body": "On Mastodon, you can control whether someone can quote you. This post is pending while we're getting the original author's approval.",
+  "status.quote_error.pending_delayed": "Post pending - Delayed",
+  "status.quote_error.pending_delayed_popout.body": "We're retrying verification of this quote in the background. This usually resolves on its own.",
   "status.quote_error.revoked": "Post removed by author",
+  "status.quote_error.verification_failed": "Quote verification failed",
+  "status.quote_error.verification_failed_popout.body": "We're failed to verify this quote. This quote is unlikely to be shown due to this failure.",
   "status.quote_followers_only": "Only followers can quote this post",
   "status.quote_manual_review": "Author will manually review",
   "status.quote_noun": "Quote",
diff --git a/app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb b/app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb
index ae3e8eed582..61ec864c508 100644
--- a/app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb
+++ b/app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb
@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ class ActivityPub::Activity::Create < ActivityPub::Activity
     embedded_quote = safe_prefetched_embed(@account, @status_parser.quoted_object, @json['context'])
     ActivityPub::VerifyQuoteService.new.call(@quote, @quote_approval_uri, fetchable_quoted_uri: @quote_uri, prefetched_quoted_object: embedded_quote, request_id: @options[:request_id], depth: @options[:depth])
   rescue Mastodon::RecursionLimitExceededError, Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError, *Mastodon::HTTP_CONNECTION_ERRORS
+    @quote.update!(state: :pending_delayed)
     ActivityPub::RefetchAndVerifyQuoteWorker.perform_in(rand(PROCESSING_DELAY), @quote.id, @quote_uri, { 'request_id' => @options[:request_id], 'approval_uri' => @quote_approval_uri })
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/quote.rb b/app/models/quote.rb
index 7c453a097e5..5222551afa9 100644
--- a/app/models/quote.rb
+++ b/app/models/quote.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Quote < ApplicationRecord
   REFRESH_DEADLINE = 6.hours
 
   enum :state,
-       { pending: 0, accepted: 1, rejected: 2, revoked: 3, deleted: 4 },
+       { pending: 0, accepted: 1, rejected: 2, revoked: 3, deleted: 4, pending_delayed: 5, verification_failed: 6 },
        validate: true
 
   belongs_to :status
diff --git a/app/workers/activitypub/refetch_and_verify_quote_worker.rb b/app/workers/activitypub/refetch_and_verify_quote_worker.rb
index 762d55e1bee..40f30a35896 100644
--- a/app/workers/activitypub/refetch_and_verify_quote_worker.rb
+++ b/app/workers/activitypub/refetch_and_verify_quote_worker.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ class ActivityPub::RefetchAndVerifyQuoteWorker
 
   sidekiq_options queue: 'pull', retry: 5
 
+  sidekiq_retries_exhausted do |msg|
+    quote_id = msg['args'].first
+
+    ActiveRecord::Base.connection_pool.with_connection do
+      Quote.find(quote_id).update!(state: :verification_failed)
+    rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
+      true
+    end
+  end
+
   def perform(quote_id, quoted_uri, options = {})
     quote = Quote.find(quote_id)
     ActivityPub::VerifyQuoteService.new.call(quote, options['approval_uri'], fetchable_quoted_uri: quoted_uri, request_id: options['request_id'])