Lost Causes Quotes

“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold

“In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.”
― Pauli Murray

“Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”
― Ethel Lina White, The Lady Vanishes

“You must expect to be in several lost causes before you die.”
― Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems

“One has nothing to lose by defending one's rights, even if one knows one cannot succeed. But the future is long and lies in God's hands.”
― Maurice Druon, La flor de lis y el león

“Lost causes may be the best causes—they usually are—but once lost they are never won.”
― George Woodcock, Anarchism

“Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last of the leaves, whose autumnal glory led him, as many a cause in its latter days, all splendid and fallen, leads all manner of men.”
― Lord Dunsany