Quotes About Defeat

The score is still Q to 12!

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

At the final end you won the war after losing every battle.

Oh, the foes will rise With the sleep still in their eyes And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that it's for real The hour when the ship comes in Then they'll raise their hands Sayin' we'll meet all your demands But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharaoh's tribe They'll be drownded in the tide And like Goliath, they'll be conquered

There's nothing that can change it and it's fucked.

You lost a close election," Graham

12You will look for your enemies, but you will not find them. Those who fought against you will vanish completely.

Another Celtic legend tells of the duel of two famous bards. One, accompanying himself on the harp, sang from the coming day to the coming of twilight. Then, when the stars or the moon came out, the first bard handed the harp to the second, who laid the instrument aside and rose to his feet. The first singer admitted defeat.

The knowledge may help us to defeat him!

Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure – it is, after all, what every body does all the time.

My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.

But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

It's just ordinary hopelessness.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - learn to love. You have been given a hard road to walk. Love will ease it. Much depends on you, Alanna of Trebond. Do not fail me! - The Goddess

Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own life-- for he was invulnerable. A terrible predicament he was in, to be utterly suicidal, and unable to perish.