Quotes About Defeat

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat

En vivant votre misère, vous pouvez être malheureuse ou heureuse. C'est dans ce choix que consiste votre liberté. Vous êtes libre de fondre votre individualité dans la marmite de la multitude avec un sentiment de défaite, ou bien avec euphorie. (...) notre seule liberté est de choisir entre l'amertume et le plaisir. L'insignifiance de tout étant notre lot, il ne faut pas la porter comme une tare, mais savoir s'en réjouir. (ch. 43)

You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost!

For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable defeat called life is to try to understand it. That - that is the raison d'être of the art of the novel.

Beauté, la dernière victoire possible de l'homme qui n'a plus d'espoir

We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it.

The only things that held them together were their defeat

But the world was too ugly, and no one decided to rise up out of the grave.

MoglibyÅ›my nazwa? zawrót gÅ'owy upojeniem sÅ'aboÅ›ciÄ…. CzÅ'owiek uÅ›wiadamia sobie swÄ… sÅ'abo?? i nie chce siÄ™ przed niÄ… broni?; pragnie jej siÄ™ podda?. Jest pijany sÅ'aboÅ›ciÄ…, chce by? jeszcze sÅ'abszy, chce upa?? poÅ›rodku placu, na oczach wszystkich, chce by? na dnie, jeszcze ni?ej ni? na dnie.

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

I just love to put a hurt on evil things. (Katra)

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

I love winning. I don't like losing.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.

Do you know what a fucking loser you are?

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

Select your battles carefully. Ultimately, victory and defeat are a matter of your own careful—or reckless—choices. —TLALOC, Weaknesses of the Empire

It seemed to Jessica that love was something a machine could not experience, and humans had defeated thinking machines in the Butlerian Jihad, millennia ago. But if humans were the victors, why did this remnant of non-humanity—the savagery of the gom jabbar—thrive in one of the Great Schools? Savagery was as much a part of the human psyche as love. One could not exist without the other.

Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day. Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see?

Aye, she'm cutten our tails off'n us wi' a single swipe, missie!

You'll never take me alive! I don't want you alive, rat!

Rock beats scissors, bitch.