Defeat Quote by C.N. Faust

“Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory.”

— George Orwell

“Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet:…

— Evangeline Walton

“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable…

— Albert Camus

“So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Lenz sat in the Stutz and we drove slowly off. I held my handkerchief to my nose and looked out over the evening fields…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.”

— Erin Bow

“That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And…

— John McCrae

“It was a balancing act, to hold off quarrel and worry, the coming years, the coming months, even tomorrow morning for just whatever time…

— Alice McDermott

“By noon,the tide had turned. The drakars emblazoned with wolf and dragon joined the fleet of the Hawk as they set sail for the…

— Josie Litton

“It was in a place where the days would go by and surprise anyone that they were over.”

— Eudora Welty

“And with that, Umasi reached down and slung Zyid's lifeless body over his shoulder, stoically bearing the morbid burden in silence. Slowly, solemnly, the…

— Isamu Fukui

“The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one…

— John Green