From the Journals of Denton Welch -
"We both felt then, I think, how doomed we were, how doomed everyone was. We saw very clearly the plain tragedy of our lives and of everybody's. A year after a year after a year passes and then you look back and your sadness pierces you. We were very sad from the drink, and clear-sighted..." (1944)
"Again I felt nothing but all the sadness and parting and dying and diseases in the world. All the accidents and hate and the long, long everlasting going-on-ness of it all..." (1944)
"When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birt5h to death." (1944)
"An eternal moment always dissolving which will yet re-occur a thousand, thousand times to a thousand, thousand other people when we are dead, who will look out in the same way through the window in their heads and see the falling rain, the bracken, the pattern of the oak bark, and w2onder, and go on wondering for years." (September 1944)
