#def

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#defeat-and-attitude #laser #reality #virtual-reality #attitude

Darkness has conquered the day; the arms of the night slapped the living daylight off the day.Gripping. Killing. Totally overwhelming. The taste of darkness bitters my mouth as I struggled against unnumbered foes. ↗

— Chika Onyenezi

#defeat-and-attitude #attitude

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dark #defarge #inspirational #ironic #beauty

their heart grew cold they let their wings down ↗

— Sappho

#defeat #giving-in #giving-up #imagery #poetry

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. ↗

— Albert Meltzer

#hope #inevitably #last #optimism

Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you? ↗

— Pamela Clare

#beauty #defiant #beauty

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over. ↗

— Eric Snow

#better #deeper #defensively #get #into

We could return from sand if we had to--form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors. ↗

— Addison Moore

#love #beauty

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function