#defeat

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#defeat #death

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ↗

— Al Gore

#glory #hard #how #loss #matter

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#isolation #self-defeating

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#absolute truth #based #defeat #false #lead

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. ↗

— Henry Miller

#best #beyond #defeat #friends #his

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #both sides #defeat #followed #military

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#believe #committed #could #cowardly #defeat