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“In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.”

Source: CONAN THE BARBARIAN SERIES – Complete Collection (Fantasy & Action-Adventure Classics): Pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery - 20 books about the Cimmerian Barbarian, Thief, Pirate and Eventual King of Aquilonia During the pre-Ice Age, Hyborian Age, Featuring a Poem and an Essay

“I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.”

Thinking War Suffering Bits Views Company Fire Too Much Middle Battle Definitions Pops Smell East Journalism Middle East Reporters Immune Romanticism Victorian Cannons

Author:Robert Fisk

“Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.”

Men Writing Suffering Battle Letters Legs Chickens Childbirth Housekeeping Amends

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.”

Ifs Should Suffering Opportunity Social Sex Boys Poverty Battle Should Have Lays Chains My Boys Relinquishing Ostracism Social Ostracism

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.”

Knows Men Mind Use Suffering Growing Up Growing Habit Exercise Battle Labor Terror Endurance

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

Men Children War Young Mother Suffering White Saws Wife Battle Army Soldier Young Man Veteran Corpses Comrade Skeletons Veterans Day Musings Debris Dead Soldiers

Book:Passage to India

Source: Passage to India

“It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.”

Art Facts Kids Suffering Nations Enjoy Teach Identity Battle Labor Crisis Fruit Chiefs Who We Are Agendas Ancestor Identity Crisis

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.”

“Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going on in Vietnam. It seemed to a lot of us like a catastrophe from the very beginning, inflicting immense and needless suffering on not only the American soldiers but on a lot of innocent peasants who were caught in a Cold War proxy battle - two million Vietnamese died during those years, and you woke up every morning knowing that that was going on.”

“I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."”

Thinking Knows Way Children Ends Problem Suffering Fighting President Generations Battle Our Children Iraq Odd Troops Rationality Our Generation Baghdad President George W Bush

Author:Jon Stewart

“Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.”

Suffering Air Battle Solutions Determine Compromise Adoption Disadvantages Tactical Contestants Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.”

Knows Able Suffering Fighting Next Loses Battle Skills Defeat Warrior Next Time Improving True Warrior

Author:Paulo Coelho

“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)”

Looks Heart Long Made Suffering Song Fall Strong Dark Sleep Kings Battle Mountain Gold Gates Halls Tall Spells Bells Dread Worms Foe Hammers Hollow Arrows Spears Dwarves Dark Things

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)”

Knows Should Seems Suffering Cases Battle Innocent Spares Fury

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon