"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

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Source : Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

Rupert Brooke

#Death Quotes #Long Quotes #Tire Quotes

“My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.”
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”
“I hate the way chorus boxes sound”
“The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.”
“As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.”
“When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.”
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.”
“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.”

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