"All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth."

-- Ilka Chase

#Heartbreaking Quotes #Youth Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.”
“Perhaps nothing was ever â€œmeant to be.â€ There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit â€œbendy.”
“As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end”
“Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black
“I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”
“There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.”

Source : "Faith, Hope and Charity".
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

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