#war

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#caring #discipline #freedom #love #people

Here's what you need to know: some cliches are true, and war is definitely hell. It's being afraid all the time, and when you're not afraid it's because you're pumped full of adrenaline you could literally burst. It's watching people who you love- really profoundly love- get blown to pieces right next to you. It's seeing a leg lying in the ditch and picking it up to put it in a bag because no man- or part of a man, your friend- can be left behind. It's the dark night of the soul. There's no front line over there. The war is all around them, every day, everywhere they go. Some handle it better than others. We don't know why, but we do know this: the human mind can't safely or healthily process that kind of carnage and uncertainty and horror. It just can't. No one comes back from war the same. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#home

Nella vita normale della trincea, nessuno prevede la morte o la crede inevitabile; ed essa arriva senza farsi annunciare, improvvisa e mite. In una grande città d’altronde vi sono più morti d’accidenti imprevisti di quanti ve ne siano nella trincea di un settore d’armata. Anche i disagi sono poca cosa. Anche i contagi più temuti. Lo stesso colera che è? Niente. Lo avemmo fra la 1a e la 2 a armata, con molti morti, e i soldati ridevano del colera. Che cosa è il colera di fronte al fuoco d’infilata di una mitragliatrice? ↗

— Emilio Lussu

#war #death

War must be ,when there's no other way A WAR is good and right only: if there's not other way And if's for Freedom and justice ANd if you fight Do it bravery and with honor ANd if is posible with mercy ↗

— Stuparu Razvan

#freedom

There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#hope #inspirational #war #warrior #freedom

If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others? ↗

— C.H. Hamel

#self-awareness #self-perception #respect

Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably forgotten. What dreadful clichés war and social strife reduces us to, and how powerful the effect must be, if even I am so infected. I think I must pull myself together. ↗

— Iain Banks

#self-pity #war #death

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o’ defeatin’ death, but neither o’ them do a blinkin’ thing but sanction dyin’. Throughout history, Death’s best friend has been a priest with a knife. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion #war #death

You are either going forward or you are not. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#forward #going #you

Death Notice, ...... “He was offended with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817 ↗

— Boston Recorder

#epitaph #death