Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
I became the messenger who had to be killed.
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.
The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott
