Patricia Briggs Quotes

That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Dead men have no victory.

There are no furloughs for victims. There is no return from the grave.

No one wants to be beaten, even myself.

I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.

When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I'd be very down. I'd go home, and it would drag on for days, I'd be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

If you ask any manager after a defeat, you want to be as far away from it as you can.

My role in 'Love Sonia' gripped me to the extent that I started despising the male touch. I would stand under the shower for long spells. It just didn't feel nice.

Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.