diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index b8fc37bc7..e9a9ea77e 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ func NewClient(addrs []string, conf *Config) (Client, error) {
 	switch err {
 	case nil:
 		break
-	case ErrLeaderNotAvailable, ErrReplicaNotAvailable:
+	case ErrLeaderNotAvailable, ErrReplicaNotAvailable, ErrTopicAuthorizationFailed, ErrClusterAuthorizationFailed:
 		// indicates that maybe part of the cluster is down, but is not fatal to creating the client
 		Logger.Println(err)
 	default: