Quotes by Beck

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

“Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knewthat war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and s...”

“There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any other way. It sits level on the head, low over eyes...”

“People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then almost invariably end up with some very tiny detail which crept in and set and became the symbol ...”

“Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now...”

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is ...”

“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the au...”

“I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.”

“Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.”

“the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith”

“One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.”

“The future was chaos, war and blood and thirst, ending with everyone's bones bleached white in the desert. The sand would bury their buildings and bodies, and eventually it would be impossible to t...”

“A man without words is a man without thought.”

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

“Awareness is our true self; its what we are. So we dont have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our ju...”

“If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hid...”

“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”

“You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.”

“I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.”

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshelThou mayest that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if Thou ma...”