“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.”
— John Updike, book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
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“And you will understand all too soon
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Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.”
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990) senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, an advisor to the Edward Heath and Marga…
A statement sometimes attributed to him, and also, more plausibly, to the first Baron Rothschild (as one of 1871); as quoted in Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favour (2016) by Spencer Jakab, p. 221
Variants:
When there's blood in the streets it's time to buy.
As quoted in Inside Man (2006)
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Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Variant: But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for