Quotes About Defeat

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Battles in the Legislature can be tough.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

You can get beat any day.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

I don't like to get beat in anything!

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

People always let me know when their team beats the Canucks.

I have a lot of respect for who beats me and that's it.

I'm not going to hate anybody who beats me. But. I. Just. Don't. Like. Losing.

You know it's part of football to lose, it belongs to it and its necessary because then you know what a feeling it is to win and you want to achieve that more and more. If you lose you appreciate winning a little bit more.

The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on--and something insipid about the parade of grinning letters defeated Dylan's will utterly.

They won the war but lost the peace

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.

Cutting down that tree was my last war! I asked him who won, which I thought was a nice question, because it would let him say that he won, and feel proud. He said, The ax won! It's always that way!

In the modern world, the meaning of the dead to the defeated is a bitter, unhealed wound, where defeat rarely means obliteration of the people and the civilization. As we recently witnessed in the Persian Gulf War, defeat may not even bring the fall of the opposing government. At the level of grand strategy in Vietnam, the United States had been defeated, and yet American soldiers had won every battle. For the veterans, the unanchored dead continue to hover.

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

que no importa cuán listos seamos, a veces nos toca perder, [...]

Hay una dignidad en la derrota que a duras penas le corresponde a la victoria.

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The I feel a contentment in defeat, I reflected, simply because defeat has come, because it is infinitely connected to all the acts that are, that were, and that shall be, because to censure or deplore a single real act is to blaspheme against the universe.