Alice Duer Miller Quotes

In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Bragg has been defeated at Chattanooga with great loss-abandoned Look Out Mountain and fell back we don't know where. The worst news of the war for us here. It looks as if we are to be exterminated. I now anticipate nothing better

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.