Best Trenches Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How can a man understand and appreciate the time of peace when he has never been in the trenches of life.”

“Indicting red squiggly lines in our thoughts may besiege our mind at some point. Before they take possession of the framework and the outlines of our lives, we must endeavor, from the outset, to track down the upsetting causes in the blurred trenches of our inner selves. ("Unfulfilled meeting")”

Mind Thoughts Framework Outlines Trenches Blurred Inner Selves Besiege Indict Squiggly Line

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ; Courage that suns Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns.”

War Suffering World War I Soldiers Guns Trenches World War 1 World War One Gilbert Frankau

Author:Gilbert Frankau

“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.”

War France Great War Trenches First World War

Book:13, rue Thérèse

Source: 13, rue Thérèse

“The global Corona conflict has rammed people into trenches. Invisible, lethal, viral weapons have replaced visible whistling bullets and thunderous bombs. As we don’t know who is calling the shots, it is difficult to tell how we can call a truce with imperceptible enemies. (“What do they hide behind their dirty aprons”)”

Invisible Bombs Coronavirus Bullets Trenches Viral Aprons Lethal Call The Truce Who Is Calling The Shots

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots crept down further along the continental shelf, downward into the abysses, downward into the ocean floor, burrowing under the corals and under trenches, and then back up again to sprout in the darkened forest on a foreign continent: all the trees of the world now had conjoined roots, for they were now of one conjoined consciousness!”

Sea Roots Property Soil Ownership Trees River Forest Interconnectedness Ontology Trenches Collective Consciousness Perimeter Ashim Shanker Helix Tangles Conjoined Corals

Book:Only the Deplorable

Source: Only the Deplorable

“If we feel incarcerated in the trenches of viral wars, let us not give way to a defensive ‘fear’ reflex or offensive ‘rage’ reflex but let us follow our orienting ‘adventure’ reflex and explore the numerous paths to a new reality. ("Corporeal prison")”

Offensive Trenches Defensive New Reality Corporeal Prison Incarcerated Orienting Reflex Fear Reflex Rage Reflex Viral War

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange feet in the tall grass in an unutterably menacing thing. Your breath comes in shallow bursts; you have to force yourself to stifle any panting or wheezing. There is a little mechanical click as the safety-catch of your pistol is taken off; the sound cuts straight through your nerves. Your teeth are grinding on the fuse-pin of the hand-grenade. The encounter will be short and murderous. You tremble with two contradictory impulses: the heightened awareness of the huntsmen, and the terror of the quarry. You are a world to yourself, saturated with the appalling aura of the savage landscape.”

Trenches First World War Wwi Nature Of War Soldiering War Psychology Storm Of Steel

Author:Ernst Jünger

“It’s like a man in the trenches again: he doesn’t know any more why he should go on living, because if he escapes now he’ll only be caught later, but he goes on just the same, and even though he has the soul of a cockroach and has admitted as much to himself, give him a gun or a knife or even just his bare nails, and he’ll go on slaughtering and slaughtering, he’d slaughter a million men rather than stop and ask himself why.”

Slaughter Soldiers Trenches Existential Questions

Book:Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trench but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging - even waving! There was one which we all shook when we passed, saying, 'Good morning', in a posh voice. Everybody did it. The bottom of the trench was springy like a mattress because of all the bodies underneath.”

Corpses Trenches Wwi World War One Leonard Thompson

Book:Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Source: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

“Rats, the only creatures that seemed to flourish in the trenches, were quite brave and were often a foot long (not including the tail), the size of a small cat. They grew fat on the corpses in No Man’s Land and were known to bite sleeping soldiers’ faces and gather around the eating areas. The French left the rats alone. Like a canary in a coal mine, the rats were a warning that gas shells had been fired. At the slightest whiff of gas, the large rats flipped feet up, dead. The Americans hated them too much to leave them alone. They bludgeoned the rats with shovels and rifle butts or shot them with their side arms.”

World War I Rats Trenches World War 1 World War One

Book:Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War

Source: Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War

“I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)”

Life Hurt Life And Living Life Changing Life Is Hard Hard Life Trenches Happy Ending Shiny Exposing Ele Willow Mosby

Book:Exposing ELE

Source: Exposing ELE

“I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.”

Feels States America Fighting United United States Senate Trenches

Author:John Thune

“I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.”

Given White Wonderful Saint Fake Coats Leather Trenches Givenchy Trench Coats

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.”

Men Feels Doe Faces Leader Military Fronts Cold Shots Instinct Soldier Warm Protection Holes Courageous Shells Comrade Trenches Comradeship

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”

Sweet Flower Blow Meadows Trenches Cuckoos

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.”

Persons Facts Darkness Laughing Laughter Optimistic Nervous Day To Day Facts Of Life Pessimistic Trenches

Author:Alain de Botton

“A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.”

Ifs Years Looks Artist Careers Profession Fathom Trenches

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.”

Ifs School Film Information Students Direct Observers Respectful Sponges Trenches Film School

Author:Lake Bell

“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.”

World Should Doe Matter Age Should Have Gender Coats Trenches Trench Coats

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.”

Shots Sticks Trenches

Author:Gordon Bethune

“The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

“In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.)”

Ifs World War Would Be Hero Sitting Soldier War Of The Worlds Seconds World War Ii World War I Wraps Manuals Trenches Grenade Infantry

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.”

Kind War Father Died Breasts Yellow Babe Trenches

Book:War Is Kind

Source: War Is Kind

“Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.”

Knows Heart Littles War Hard Games Dark Kindness Rain Soldier Cards Sunshine Cigarette Bullets Bent Insects Trenches

Author:Conor Oberst

“I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.”

Love Art Desire Love Is Understood Sitting Like Love Trenches

Author:Laurence Gartel

“I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.”

“Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.”

Giving Seems Moving Games Chance Known Player Possibility Negative Fighter Opponents Inches Warfare Traps Trenches Karpov

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

Choices Worship Trenches Yahweh Worship You Real Worship

Author:David Foster Wallace

“A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.”

Firsts States School Church Education Opening Grammar Monopoly Church And State Trenches Grammar School

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.”

People Firsts Would Be Lying Break Hero Paid Soldier Reports Abandoned Submit Royal Castles Shameful Atrocities Trenches

Author:Karl Kraus

“Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.”

Lasts Grows Water Views Progress Flow Circles Cease Distinction Shore Trenches

Author:George Crabbe

“I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes. I may have really bad vision. I may have one leg. I may not know how to read. I may not know who the vice president is. I may technically be an alien of the state. I may have a Zune. I may not know Excel. I may be two 9-year-olds in a trench coat. I may not have full control of my bowels. I may drive a '94 Honda Civic. I may not “get” cameras. I may dye my hair with Hydrogen Peroxide. I may be afraid of trees. I may be on fire right now. But I'm a fierce queen.”

“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.”

Light Night House Century Revolution India Lays Speed Digital Candle Every Night Gang Cables Digging Fiber Trenches Laborers Digital Revolution

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.”

Men War Whole Individual Lines Population Organized Combat Slaughter Opposing Trenches Between The Lines

Book:Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

“I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.”

People States Talking Records Swings Behalf Trenches

Author:Eva Longoria

“We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.”

“If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.”

Ifs Long War Hands Fire Gun Distance Killing Poison Gas Again And Again Liquid Back Again Long Distance Trenches Submarines Grenade Mortar Poison Gas Torpedoes

Author:Evadne Price

“At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.”

Ifs Men Seems Moving Fronts Crowds Worthy Smell Circles Hats Target Afternoon Odds Location Wrath Prey Cloaks Columbus Trenches Mime Uninterested Jugglers Dorky Top Hats

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.”

“The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.”

Stills Different Hands Eye Emotion Fire Pieces Clothes Picks Coats Vans Printed Glamour Colorful Trenches Gilded Trench Coats

Author:Suzy Menkes

“The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.”

Running Earth Together House Natural Space Middle Fashion Summer Winter Warm Over It Passages Roof Site Interiors Select Dwelling Reeds Trenches Very Cool Interior Space

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”

Source: His Master's Voice

“I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.”

People Trying Social Lines Fronts Social Change Trenches Great Respect

Author:Jon Stewart

“Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.”

Hard Can Do Pages Tough Each Day Blank Editing All Alone Trenches Blank Pages

Author:Sarah Dessen

“There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.”

Humor Funny Tragedy Our Future Coats Your Future Trenches Trench Coats

Author:Jim Norton

“Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.”

Made Real Country Stories Community Land Crosses Miles Our Family Paradox Typical Digging Livelihood Trenches Westerners

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.”

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