Richard Virenque Quotes

There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

I envy the dead.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Even one death is horrible.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

To have died once is enough.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Death is an art, you know.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

I cannot compete with the grave.

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.