Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

The costs of failure are infinitely greater than the price of victory.

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

We have all lost before and we will win again.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

I was in the Army. I wasn't trained to lose.

song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

All things are subject to decay and change.