Defeated World Number

Famous quotes containing the words defeated, world and/or number:

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“I wonder love can have already set
In dreams, when we’ve not met
More times than I can number on one hand.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)