Brief Triumph Quotes

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Coalitions, though successful, have always found that their triumph has been brief.

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.