#lit

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

#being #care #fame #know #known

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#both #counts #good #good and bad #religion

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. ↗

— Frances Burney

#continually #given #half #mean #opinion

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#connect #fighting #host #impartial #personalities

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles. ↗

— Edward Burns

#cool #cool thing #different #different personalities #different styles

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#eyes #inspirational #looking #personality #beauty

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. ↗

— John Burns

#fallen #hand #help #helping #helping hand

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#war #beauty