History Quotes / DeterminedDefeatist

->''I know I can never defeat you, but [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving I will never stop fighting for this life]].''

->''I know I can never defeat [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath you]], but [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving I will never stop fighting for this life]].''
-->--'''Puss''', to the Wolf/[[spoiler:Death]], ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''

->''I know I can never defeat you, but [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving I will never stop fighting for this life]].''

->''You know, we're just not getting through to that guy.''

-->-- '''Music/{{Rush}}''', "Bravest Face"

->Why give up?\\

[[ForegoneConclusion It's not enough]], [[DoomedByCanon it never is.]]\\
[[KnightInSourArmor But I will go on until the end.]]

->When I was born I got my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, both arms and one of my ankles. Mom said there came a point when the doctors stopped delivering me and just started laughing. I mean, if I ever let being bad at something stop me, I wouldn't even be here. That thing some men call 'failure', I call living, breakfast. And I'm not leaving till I've cleaned out the buffet.

->The reason why I'm so useless. I try even though I know I can't do anything right. Even when I said I wouldn't try anymore, I kept on trying anyway.

->Certainty of death? ''Small'' chance of success? ...What are we waiting for?

->[[SecondPersonNarration You]] might be bad at everything you try, but at least [[InteractiveFiction you're]] turning out to be pretty bad at giving up.

->She fights even though there is no hope.

->In the sweetest child there's a vicious streak\\

So you might as well rise, put on your bravest face

->There's a vulture on my shoulder\\

Fixed at zero.
-->-- '''Versaemerge''', "Fixed At Zero"

->What is your duty? To look the universe in the face and then spit in its eye. To die with a curse on your lips and your finger on the trigger. To know that you are doomed, but try anyway.
-->-- '''[[TabletopGame/{{Inquisitor}} Inquisitor Soldevan]]''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-> A trifling victory... but a victory nonetheless.

->''Winning?'' Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because -- because I wanna blame someone! It's not because it's fun. God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does! I do what I do because it's ''RIGHT!'' Because it's ''decent!'' And above all, it's ''kind!'' It's just that... Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all. But it's the best I can do, so I'm gonna do it. And I will stand here doing it 'till it kills me. You're going to die too! Some day... And how will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand... is where I fall.

-> Fighting the Machine is like fighting the ocean. You literally cannot hurt it. Doesn’t matter how much poison we dump into the ocean. We’ll only kill the things in it. We’ll never kill it. Same with the God-Machine. Kill angels, traitors, stigmatics, cultists, cryptids, whatever, you’ll never hurt the Machine Itself. No, that doesn’t mean we stop trying. You stop trying, you drown. Screw that.
-->-- Mr. Bliss, Guardian Inquisitor, as found in the ''Night Horrors: Enemy Action'' sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent''

->[[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You know you're smarter than gamers who beat you regularly]]. You lose games you should win, not deliberately, but stubbornly. You're playing the game at a different level. Not trying to win, [[WideEyedIdealist trying to win with kindness. Altruism]].
->Anyway, we have any number of brilliant scientists, brilliant analysts, brilliant communicators, brilliant theoreticians, brilliant physicists, brilliant techs, and brilliant astronomers on board the [[CoolShip MCQ3]]. I asked myself what we didn't have, and the answer came to me. [[VitriolicBestBuds We had no brilliant losers]].

->Can there be a day beyond this night?\\

The next right thing

->Cold: the air and water flowing\\

'Till we're lifeless together, together

-> Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because -- because I wanna blame someone! It's not because it's fun. God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does! I do what I do because it's RIGHT! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind! It's just that... Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all. But it's the best I can do, so I'm gonna do it. And I will stand here doing it 'till it kills me. You're going to die too! Some day... And how will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand... is where I fall.