Irrepressible Quotes

“We may lose battles
but we are stronger
and the only thing that can defeat us ultimately
is our willingness to accept defeat.

We cannot accept defeat.

I do not accept defeat.”
― Shellen Lubin

“In fact, whenever Ben thought about it, his worry would slowly evaporate. But when he didn't think about it, it niggled and made him need to think about it again.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“It is a kind of irrepressible energy that strikes us most in MacDiarmid's work, an energy which at times outruns the reader's patience or the demands of the subject but which always recovers unexpectedly, pauses, and strikes like a cobra. His methods are his own, and he is a model for no one, but he is one of the great twentieth-century poets, and a writer whose individuality it will take the next century to sift and define.”
― Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid