Status Updates From The Lords of Discipline

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"I felt all the pain of growing older, the hazard of wisdom, and the death of beautiful illusions."

"I had lived with fear a long time now and some vague presentiment that it would always be present."

I’m fucking gutted. This book has destroyed me.

NOOOO!

“Cruelty was an easy sport to master when practiced anonymously.”

“The God that created man in his own image must be a vile, unconscionable being. Or he must be highly amused by depravity.”

“The single theme of human existence is atrocity… Anything that man can do that will irreparably harm his fellow man, he will certainly do.”

I hope this bitch dies, genuinely.

“You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.”

This book has some serious laugh out loud dialogue between military dudes

“I thought about how I feared things being irrevocably finished… had it been that long ago that I was eighteen? How could a human being deal with such swiftness, with such unrecallability?”

BROTHER! Again, the main character is describing me- “I have come to distrust periods of extreme happiness and now when I discover myself in the middle of one, I glance nervously around me.”

“Remember it when you’re looking at your face in the mirror thirty years from now and seeing an ugly old man instead of a smooth-skinned cadet. It’s the quickness of it all that will surprise you. The incredible swiftness.”

“God planned that the world was to be a vast orb of disillusionment and pain. He planned it that way and it pleased him to see that the plan was letter perfect.”

“Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me.”