"My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness."

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Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Anthony Swofford

#Loneliness Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.”

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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

Source : "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.
“After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
“Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.”
“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
“The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.”
“Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.”
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

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