Quotes About Defeat

The Jews here are actually a single big refugee camp, and so are the Arabs. And now the Arabs live day by day with the disaster of their defeat, and the Jews live night by night with the dread of their vengeance.

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it, whether by tuberculosis in the old days, or by neurosis today. I had never thought before of the connection between neurosis and romanticism. Wanting the impossible? Dying when unable to reach it? Not wanting to compromise?

Why go to Tahiti or Bali? Only sad, defeated people do that.

La derrota no es más que una fase para mí. Debo conquistar, vivir.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

On my way out with the rest, I glanced back at Bowman. he was on this knees, his hair in his face, his nose and split lips dripping with blood. He was staring down at the floor like he'd been waiting for this and now it had finally happened; he look relieved.

A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Josh's arm was in a cast, and his face was covered with bruises. Mr. Freeman had a large bandage on his forehead, and Mrs. Freeman was on crutches. They looked as if the world had defeated them.

AMISSION  (AMI'SSION)   n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.

He'd wanted to die on the spot, but he had the rotten luck of living through it.

All Griff had to do was lob a short screen pass over the line into Whitethorn's hands. Or miss him, and get paid a cool two million by the Vista boys. Cowboys lost 14–10.

Each was over fifty and poor, probably homeless, wearing clothes that hadn't been washed this year. They were the same type of man you could see in any city in America, in a little park or square just off downtown, halfway to skid row. I think they started making them after the Civil War; fighters who'd lost their wars and lost their fight. Even when their side won, they lost.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.

I'm a pretty good dancer," Lion says. "Do you want to see me Floss?" "No," she says, frowning. "Flossing will not help you save your friends and defeat the witches!" She is clearly exasperated. "I can do the Macarena," Tin Man adds. The guardian sighs and shakes her head. "Save the Wizard first. Then get your friends. Then you can practice your dance moves.

As Beaumarchais gathered blankets and grenades in France, William Howe's redcoats came ashore and slaughtered Washington's forces on Long Island, in Brooklyn, and then in Manhattan. A humiliated Washington could do nothing to stop his troops' shoddy retreat from Kips Bay, swatting at them with his horsewhip and howling, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue

Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?