Bronte Campbell Quotes

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

You can't go on winning all the time.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I cannot compete with the grave.

You're going to lose eventually. It doesn't matter who you are.

Every team is going to lose; every team is going to win.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.