Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Defeat

Quotes about: Defeat

• The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Strong, Loss, Men

• Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Failure, Boredom, Defeat

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Sweat, People

• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sacrifice, Judging

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

• Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Temporary Defeat, May, Path

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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