“What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.” WinningHurtAwarenessLosingDefeatPainfulIt Hurts Author:David Roochnik
“When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.” IfsWayLittlesPersonsI CanHardRunningHurtTiredDefeatPopsQuittingI'm TiredSo Hurt Author:Will Smith
“We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.” HurtStrengthConsciousDefeatAssaultAttackingHurts Someone Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.” KnowsPainActorsHurtMillionsEmotionalWestDefeatIt HurtsEmotional PainWild WestWild Wild West Author:Will Smith
“Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.” PeopleGivingSeemsAbleMovingUsedReadingSidesTermHurtStruggleVictoryDefeatPunishmentEngagedReverseVengeanceIndication Author:Barbara Deming
“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.” PeoplePainFoundHurtLaughingSorrowGoodnessBraveryDefeatIt HurtsFunny ThingsPain And SorrowStranger In A Strange Land Author:Robert A. Heinlein