Quotes About Defeat

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling that he had only just grown up. It occured to him that he was merely repeating the destiny of every human being. Everyone rebels against the money-code, and everyone sooner or later surrenders. He had kept up his rebellion a little longer than most, that was all. And he had made such a wretched failure of it!

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality.

Vicisti, O Aspidistra!

accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead...

Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. THE END

Oynad???m?z bu oyunda, kazanmak söz konusu deÄŸil. Ama baz? yenilgiler ötekilerden daha iyidir, hepsi bu.

To die hating them, that was freedom

The girl from the fiction department… was looking at him [Winston]… She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life… She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated… All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead.

He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

Do you believe in God, Winston?" "No." "Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?" "I don't know. The spirit of Man.

I myself think it was right, because I believe that it is better even from the point of view of survival to fight and be conquered than to surrender without fighting.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Nesse jogo que estamos jogando, não temos como vencer. Alguns tipos de fracassos são melhores que outros.

Si seguimos sintiendo que vale la pena seguir siendo humanos, incluso aunque no sirva de nada, les habremos derrotado.

You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.

Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. - Christmas , In Persuasion Nation

Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch. roger bevins iii

Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.