Defeat Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

— Fay Weldon

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

— Susanna Kearsley

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

— Nalini Singh

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

— Franz Kafka

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

— Joseph Heller

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just…

— Christopher Moore

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

— Leszek Kolakowski

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to…

— Henry Miller

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

— George A. Sheehan