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Lady Cynthia Asquith
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“Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.”
Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry, 11 November 1915
“I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before. ... One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.”
Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry, 7 October 1918
“I use the word smile for lack of a better word, but how to convey the beauty of the indefinable expression that transfigured that time-worn face? Tender triumph: gentle joy: rapturous reverence. What mystery did I witness? It was like iron frost yielding to sunshine — the thawing of grief in the dawn-radiance of some unsurmisable redemption.”
Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Corner Shop", attributed to Cynthia Asquith in Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (ISIS Large Print, 1987) p. 49. Attributed to C. L. Ray in Helen Hoke (ed.) Terrors, Terrors, Terrors (USA: Franklin Watts, 1979) pp.…