Quotes About Defeat

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins.

Goodman insisted there was nothing to be done.

The necessity of nature's final victory was expected and accepted in generations before our own. Doctors were far more willing to recognize the signs of defeat and far less arrogant about denying them.

The distortion of relationship which says "I disagree with you, so I must destroy you" leaves us as Black people with basically uncreative victories, defeated in any common struggle. This jugular vein psychology is based on the fallacy that your assertion or affirmation of self is an attack upon my self — or that my defining myself will somehow prevent or retard your self-definition.

Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science.

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

Are you tryin' to defeat me by talking me to death?!' -- Peter Parker

But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat.

Bill Clinton has perhaps been the most amazing practitioner of truth management in public life. He's had to be. Beset by enemies willing to use any tool to do him in, he let the truth out like a fly fisherman plays out a line, delicately, artfully, with infinite finesse, never emitting more truth than necessary, struggling mightily to tell us what he could without admitting defeat.

But you have to hear the end of the story - you have to know the wolf doesn't win.

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

Three heavy blows boxed him low in the back. He saw a splash of red hit the door and had time to think, 'We should have remembered the body armor.' Then he crumpled, still holding onto the knob with one hand as the world rushed away from him. Everything he was and everything he'd ever known diminished to a single burning-bright point of light. Then it went out. His hand slipped off the knob. He died on his knees, leaning against the door.

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier

The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation

Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

It's not the end of the world to lose.