"I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."
― Douglas MacArthur
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Death
― Douglas MacArthur
More From Douglas MacArthur
- "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
- "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
- "I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
More In Death
- "I was taught to confront things you can’t avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you’re trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don’t last for ever makes them beautiful."― Damien Hirst
- "The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."― V. S. Naipaul
- "It’s not life or death it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser."― Bernhard Langer