It is simply not true that war never settles anything. —Felix Frankfurter More about this quote Tags: truth war finality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: love power children hurt angels wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: death courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one. —Richard Paul Haight More about this quote Tags: life immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. —Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche More about this quote Tags: fear potential knowledge depression fearlessness courage transcending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. —Elmer Davis More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door. —Yiddish folk saying More about this quote Tags: time death warning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen. —Carlos Fuentes More about this quote Tags: time perception change activity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: death absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time to plant tears, says the Almanac. —Elizabeth Bishop More about this quote Tags: time tears planting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. —Claudia Gray in Evernight More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself. —Philippa Gregory in The Boleyn Inheritance More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email