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My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.
— Charles Todd
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.
— David Jones
When he could stand it no longer, he fired a revolver up through the roof of his mouth, but he made a mess of it.
— Ellen N. La Motte
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
— Delmore Schwartz
And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.
— David Hilbert
Suffering is the common lot of man.
— Theresa Breslin
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
— Gabriel Chevallier
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.
— Charles Todd
And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!
— Thomas Pynchon
Retreat, hell we just got here!
— Lloyd Williams
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much ...
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
O how beautiful, look at the crimson snow! And up there on the rocks there are ever so many roses!
— Johanna Spyri
This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.
— Ellen N. La Motte
It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.
— Kate Cary
As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.
— David Jones
We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.
— Emmanuel Jal
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
— David Jones
I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.
— Erich Maria Remarque
A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.
— Erich Maria Remarque
It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.
— Jessie Douglas Kerruish
The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
— Smedley Butler
They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. — Edmund Blunden
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. — Edmund Blunden
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
— Andrew Forrest
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
— Sebastian Faulks
I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.
— Erich Maria Remarque
In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.
— Gabriel Chevallier