Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Arthur Wellesley.
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”
“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”
“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.”
“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”
“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”
“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and fl...”
“Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.”
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”
“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”