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Quotes About Defeat

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.
~ David Levithan
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.
~ David Levithan
Esas clases de peleas nunca pueden ser ganadas, incluso si eres el victorioso, has herido a la otra persona, y tiene que haber alguna derrota asociada con eso.
~ David Levithan
so eventually i gave up. i give up every single day.
~ David Levithan
I have been in the bodies of starvers and purgers, gluttons and addicts. They all think their actions make their lives more desirable. But the body always defeats them in the end.
~ David Levithan
Calling someone a loser is a way of saying I've won without having to actually win anything.
~ David Levithan
i am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia i don't give a fuck
~ David Levithan
and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927
~ Unknown
Discouragement. Defeat. Impossible. Too hard. All alone. Give up. Isolated. Estranged. Withdrawn. Cut off. Desolate. Depressed. Depleted. Unfulfilling. Pessimistic. Careless. Humorless. Meaningless. Absurd. Pointless. Helpless. Failure. Too tired. Despair. Confused. Forgetful. Fatalistic. Too late. Too old. Too young. Mechanical. Doomed. Negative. Forlorn. Useless. Lost. Senseless. Bleak. Blasé.
~ David R. Hawkins
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
~ David Sedaris
I felt my eyes tear up, and as my vision blurred I considered all the people who had fought against this and thought, Take that, assholes.
~ David Sedaris
A veces la grandeza la lleva el perdedor y la ignominia es de quien primero llegó.
~ Unknown
La victoria separa más que la derrota.
~ David Trueba
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.
~ Dean Koontz
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. - Life of Pi
~ Yann Martel
I accept that I've lost the game of life in the same way that one loses at solitaire.
~ Yasmina Reza
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
~ Yogi Berra
But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.
~ Zane Grey
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It's not easy to adapt to losing a lot.
~ Andre Schurrle
When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
I hate losing and I think it's good to feel a stab of anger if it happens.
~ James Haskell
When you lose a game, you are annoyed.
~ Joachim Low