Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

You should despair and run away.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

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

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.