Timothy Johnston > Timothy's Quotes

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We are lost! They have thrown us into the furnace, without rations, almost without ammunition. We were the last resources; they have sacrificed us... Our sacrifice will be in vain.”
― Sergeant Paul Dubrulle Verdun 1916