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When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.
— J.R. Rim, Write like no one is reading 2
The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever
— Jay McLean, More Than This
I invited him over and he stayed forever. I feed him all my bread, the old peppers turned to mush & fluorescent mold, the chicken thighs unthawed & boneless. He ask for more so I give him my left leg. He ask for more & I give him my lungs & lips. More still, and there goes my bladder. He eats it all, all of me, eats the whole damn house, & I live forever in him or maybe it's the other way around. I swallowed. I swallowed him whole & didn't even notice him thrashing inside me.
— Danez Smith
Would you still read me when I become a blank page.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
It was as if someone had leftthe bird thereas a kind of telegramof feathers, oily feathersthat looked like they’d struggled,shuttered a little before letting gointo flightforever.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
I want the fever to grab me forever and want you to be my fever.
— Suman Pokhrel
The best narrative is one of infinite love. A spiritual affair--one not of the material world. Intermingled, with no beginning nor end--it will always stand the test of time.
— Terry A. O'Neal
I'll love you forever. EvenEven when i can't.
— Colleen Hoover, Confess
My eyes wondered from one end of the mountains to the other. 'Do you think they go on forever?''The mountains?' Aritomo said, as though he had been asked that question before. 'They fade away. Like all things.
— Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray,” Kasyanov said. “Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.Hoop raised an eyebrow.“Hey. Forever is a long time.
— Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows
Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.
— Gemma Malley, The Resistance
I want a forever with you
— Kat Unda
You gave me forever within the numbered days.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
The word goodbye stuck to her tongue. She wasn’t ready to say it. Because goodbye weighed more when forever hung off the end. And she wasn’t sure about forever. She wasn’t sure about anything. Except that, at that moment, she wanted to believe he would always be there. Even if it meant many years down the road. She needed to still have something to hold onto.
— A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.
— Debasish Mridha
I resolved, then, deep in my soul never to let him go. I'd be the one never to leave him. I'd prove to him that some things could be for always- that we could be.
— Ann Aguirre, Outpost
a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.
— Billy Collins, The Apple that Astonished Paris
Forever and an InstantForever and an instant met up one day,had a short but lovely talk,then each went on its way.
— Bo Burnham, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
Grazing over every part of her statuesque figure, I do give in to her every wish. The sounds that escape her enlighten my senses, becoming aware of her metamorphosis as she becomes even more beautiful to me. Nothing more seems to matter as I lie here being gentle with Nadia, forever determined to please her, always changing and never changing, my love always and forever being her greatest adventure, she being all that I need and love now and forever.
— Luccini Shurod, The Painter
Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Forever doesn't exist because it hasn't started yet.
— Andrew King
I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.
— Quinn Loftis, Prince of Wolves
> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.
— Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
A sudden peace and excitement washes over me at the sound of a voice I’ve never heard, yet I know so well.
— Naya S., The Promise of Forever: Book One: Part One
I wish to be with you forever, to look upon your face always, to never leave your side.
— Genie of Agrabah
People will come and go, so enjoy your seasons of friendship.
— Mary Buchan, Over iT
This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a forever he would choose this very moment. The black night, the few yellow leaves still clinging to the bare trees, the beautiful dark-eyed woman drinking whiskey, the way she gazed at him, the way she made him feel.
— Alice Hoffman, Skylight Confessions
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
— Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
I love you. If you remember nothing else for the rest of your life, if you fall and hit your head and can’t remember my name, if you get so sick you’re unrecognizable, if you hate me, if you’re on your deathbed and can’t manage to even lift a finger — remember this. I. Love. You. Always. Forever. Eternally. Is that kind of love something you can handle, Saylor?
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.
— Jennifer Brown, Thousand Words
Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
— Shannon L. Alder
Imagine. Freedom. Always.
— Edward Rutherfurd, New York
Because you´re not a one night girl Irish.' Leaning in to place a kiss on my jawline he whispers, 'You're my forever girl.
— K.A. Tucker
Just because death would eventually separate us, that didn't mean it would destroy what we had. I am forever yours, in this life or the next. Some things could penetrate even the formidable barrier of death, and love was one of them.
— Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave
Foever is composed of nows.
— Paper Towns - John Green
Forever is composed of nows.
— Paper Towns - John Green
Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
I loved you...I loved you more than all the money your father threw at me.
— Faye Hall, She's ALot like You
Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Because I mean it. I don’t care about anything else. I could lose anyone else and make it through. But not you, Ella May. I can’t do this without you.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Ever After of Ella and Micha
I promise that this won't be our last night together, that there will be lots of nights together. I'm promising that we will see each other again, and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that happens in less than a year." He gently brushed the hair back from my face, looking in my eyes. "And I promise you that I'm going to love you, forever. Na'u 'oe, nau ko'u. You're mine and I'm yours. I'm promising you mau loa. I'm promising you forever." - Kai
— H.R. Willaston, Nine Days
I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeonIn the round-tower of my heart.And there will I keep you forever,Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,And moulder in dust away.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Birds of Passage
He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever.
— Anonymous
Only debt is forever.
— Charles Stross, Neptune's Brood
He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest.Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was a postcard.Just three words long.
— Rainbow Rowell
You can’t chain your heart forever, one day or another you are going to open it for someone and (s)he is going to piss inside it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I have been your draft for my whole life, let me in or discard me forever.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you watch the world happily drift by.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, American Elsewhere
Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.
— K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie
If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.
— Anthony Liccione
Who needs them when we have each other?
— Emily Hainsworth, Through to You
Too bad one night couldn't turn into forever.
— Addison Moore, Someone to Love
I’m not going to answer that because it’s ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that?
— Kaitlyn Oruska, The Consequences of Forever
Love is selflessly honest, even if it comes from deception.
— Saurabh Dudeja, Love You Forever Only In That Way
In the cool dark basement, she whispers, "It's not Ralph, is it?"Cabel's quiet for a moment, as if he's thinking, "You mean like Forever Ralph? Uh, no.""You've read Forever?" Janie is incredulous. "There wasn't much else to chose from on the hospital library cart, and Deenie was always checked out," Cable says sarcastically. "Did you like it?"Cabel laughs softly, "Um...well, it wasn't the wisest thing to read for a fourteen-year-old guy with fresh skin grafts in the general area down there, if you know what I mean.
— Lisa McMann, Gone
A Person is Not Big or Small from Height or Weight.It’s the Thoughts of a Person that Makes him Small or Big.You can Assess a Person only from Heights of his Thoughts...
— Saurabh Dudeja, Love You Forever Only In That Way
Love is strange mutual agreement in which qualities of one person gets sopped up by another person...
— Saurabh Dudeja, Love You Forever Only In That Way
Is it possible to love forever, she asked. Don't you know what forever means? It means now, he answered. Oh then we are in love forever.
— Anushka Bhartiya
Love could be immortalized. It could be remembered and written forever into the world, inscribed on some inanimate object. It could be wonderful words given by a loved one, or simple letters combined to show an unbroken bond." Alexis from "The Shoreline
— Lindsay Chamberlin, The Shoreline
In this way, you’ll live forever.
— Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.
— K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths
For a thousand years,and then a thousand more…I will love you.
— Jamie McGuire, Eden
It's an ember forever burning in my heart. It's a reminder Caleb will live forever.
— C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark
But I want to be near you always," he reminded her."But you'll lose everyone else, and...""I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.
— Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity
If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.
— Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!
— Jerry Spinelli, Smiles to Go
You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.
— Emma Forrest
What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.
— Dennis R. Miller
once,a boy told a girl : i will stay with you forever, little did she know that his forever is only three months because..he died of cancer!
— Amal Sagheer
...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.
— Samantha Towle, The Mighty Storm
She leaned against him, listening to his strong heartbeat as they cuddled together.Maybe he didn’t say all the right things, and maybe he didn’t do it all in the right way, but he was hers, and she was his, and they’d figure it all out together. Because she knew now that both of them were in this for the long haul, and that he’d be there for her no matter what.And that’s what counted the most.
— Jaci Burton, Playing to Win
...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
— Deb Caletti, The Story of Us
My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.
— Avery Williams, The Alchemy of Forever
In my humble opinion, forever is a bitter brew." - Max; Before Ever After ♥
— Samantha Sotto
You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?
— Tegan Quin
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."SMASH!"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
Bring it on, fur-ass!
— Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
— Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
Gavriel’s son was bellowing Whitethorn’s name. A gods-damned victory cry. Over and over, the men taking up the call. Then Fenrys’s voice lifted. And Gavriel’s. And that red-haired queen. The Havilliard king.On into battle, on into bloodshed, they called the prince’s name.
— Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
Under the Mountain dark and tallThe 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 bellsIn places deep, where dark things sleep,In hollow halls beneath the fells.-from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna
— Robert Jordan
Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.
— Julie Garwood, The Prize
Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you,” Logan said, Silver Frost.
— Kailin Gow, Silver Frost
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
— James A. Michener, Poland
Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.
— Donna Lynn Hope
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
— Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams
And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.""Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?
— Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque
The dust cannot fight against the wind
—  the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.
— Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams
I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
— Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem
Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snowflakes. All that was beautiful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visibke was only calculated to awaken terror or compassion.
— Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
— Zora Neale Hurston, A Life in Letters
Only smart warrior decides which battle to fight first, and when.
— Sameh Elsayed
On days such as this, Death’s long shadow hung like a broken halo over everyone—a sign of things to come.
— R. W. Patterson, Solace From Shadows: Where Mortality and Eternity Collide
For the first time in years, his heart raced, and the old excitement flickered inside him. The excitement of impending battle, clash of arms, danger and glory. Cei had almost forgotten it. To be alive, on the very cusp of death, was the greatest feeling of all.
— David Pilling, Leader of Battles (V): Medraut
Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not until you’ve seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sliced open, and known that they weren’t ever getting back together again, and vomited your last two meals over the rocks . . . it’s not until then that you understand the business of swords properly and, if you’re a sensible man you vow to have nothing to do with it ever again.
— Mark  Lawrence
Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.
— Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes
It's a new battle, no matter If I won or lost the last one, this is a new battle & the only thing to take forward is the lesson from the last one, if I won – why & how I won, & if I lost – why & how I lost. I will enter this battle wearing my confidence, carrying a sword (which will be my efforts) & a shield (which will be the lessons learned from previous battles). Now defeat me if you can…
— ShahenshahHK
Certain battles were won by retreating.
— Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT.
— Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
I am the wind...I am death.
— Scott Sigler, Alight
Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.
— Akshay Vasu
There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.
— Matia ben Ephraim, The Wizard of Kharathad
Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want one answer for everything. They're always making laws, as though they could make one law that would be just in all cases. They can't. They never have. I think men get derailed, sometime during their growing up. Instead of settling for what's honest and real and sort of thoughtful, they go off on these quests. They go strutting and crowing, waving their weapons and shouting their battle cries. They say they're seeking something higher, but it always seems to end in pain, doesn't it?
— Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones
Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
We took off for the tree line, leaving the wounded soldiers to wonder how they'd been beaten by four misfits and a horse.
— Rachel Sharp, A Word and A Bullet
Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
Every battle is won before it is fought.
— Sun Tzu
A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room.
— Orson Scott Card, The Swarm
Be prepared before you fight a battle
— Regillio Hardjopawiro
Be prepared before you fight a battle" -RH
— Regillio Hardjopawiro
The man who shouts wins battles
—  the quiet man wins the war.
Never speak of defeat before battle.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost.
— Sandeep Sharma, Let The Game Begin
We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!
— Deyth Banger
Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword
Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror.Because the enemy feels the same.And you have come to kill him. You are the beast from his nightmares.
— Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.
— Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.
— James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station
Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Individualistic people die on the great curves
— saqib abraham
Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.
— James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station
It took Caine a few beats to get it. “No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no.”“You’re happy here counting fish and nagging kids to work?” Edilio asked.“He’s not,” Virtue said, beating Toto to the punch and earning an annoyed glance from Caine.“He’s only done it for two days since the battle, and he’s already bored.
— Michael  Grant, Light
What you practice too often, you use without thinking.
— Robert Jordan
That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world slows. You see the attacker, you see him shouting, though you hear nothing, and you know what he will do, and all his movements are so slow and yours are so quick, and in that moment you can do no wrong and you will live forever and your name will be blazoned across the heavens in a glory of white fire because you are the god of battle.
— Bernard Cornwell
Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.
— David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.
— Meg Merriet, Sky Song Overture
Fearghus watched his mate a moment longer. It had been five years since he last saw her. Five years since he last touched her, kissed her, fucked her, saw her smile, told her to calm down, yanked a weapon from her hands before she hurt someone, or stopped her from getting in a pit brawl with her own daughter. It had been too long since he’d done all that and it was a bit overwhelming to be here now, so close to her after all this time.Annwyl slammed her spear into another Sovereign, then leaned against it, wiping her brow with the back of her hand and looking out over all the bodies she and her troops had left behind.She looked rather proud.
— G.A. Aiken
You cannot possess your Promised Land without a battle.
— Sunday Adelaja
Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go into the reach of those blades, into the place of death, and it takes time to summon the courage, to heat the blood, to let the madness overtake caution.
— Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Equipped for battle Golden truths
— Sunday Adelaja
Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.
— Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Stop battling with yourself. Be kind to yourself.
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence.
— Sunday Adelaja
If they saw men swarming up the wall, if they saw the axes chopping at our shields on the wall’s top, then they would join the battle. Men want to be on the winning side.
— Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm
She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle...
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
— Eugene B. Sledge
Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.
— Mark Lawrence
In life, toughness and roughness go together.
— Auliq Ice
Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ever known. But this brilliant and intense fear, this terrible here and now, combined with the crucial significance of every movement of his body, pushed him over a barrier whose existence he had not known about until this moment. He gave himself over completely to the god of war within him.
— Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
Fighting the right battle is as important as winning one.
— Steven Chopade
Only a fool goes to war in winter.
— Jayne Castel, The Breaking Dawn
My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
We are never out of clue
—  We are well-informed that the world is a cruel place yet we seem so surprised when new skirmish happens.
In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea or a flag for which we fight. Rather we fight for the man on our right or left. When the years fall away, all that remains are the memories of those precious moments we spent side by side.
— Michael Schiffer Hossein Amini
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
— Babe Ruth
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
— Horatio Nelson
Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
— Marquis de Acerba
The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Victory is a thing of the will.
— Marshal Foch
With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus the Vampire
When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.
— Auliq Ice
Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.
— Auliq Ice
I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.
— E.E. Knight, Dragon Champion
The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander
— R.L. Syme, The Outcast Highlander
Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.
— Daniel Abraham
Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.
— Girish Kohli
May God fight the battles of life for you.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasn't anything but her and him, and he opened his eyes to look on her face, to fix it in his mind forever.
— Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.
— Alex London, Guardian
That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination.
— V.C. Andrews, Seeds of Yesterday
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
— Erwin Rommel, The Rommel Papers
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
— Alfred Adler
Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.
— Sameh Elsayed
Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne
I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I would never again look at a man without wondering what crimes he was capable of committing. That seemed important to know.
— Robert Hicks, The Widow of the South
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.
— Richard Jordan Gatling
Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay forever.’ But suddenly into his dream there fell a living voice. ‘Well, Merry! Thank goodness I have found you!’ He looked up and the mist before his eyes cleared a little. There was Pippin! They were face to face in a narrow lane, but for themselves it was empty. He rubbed his eyes. ‘Where is the king?’ He said. ‘And Eowyn?’ Then he stumbled and sat down on a doorstep and began to weep again. ‘They must have gone up into the Citadel,’ said Pippin. ‘I think you must have fallen asleep on your feet and taken the wrong turning. When we found out you were not with them, Gandalf sent me to look for you. Poor old Merry! How glad I am to see you again! But you are worn out, and I won’t bother you with any talk. But tell me, are you hurt, or wounded?’ ‘No,’ said Merry. ‘Well, no, I don’t think so. But I can’t use my right arm, Pippin, not since I stabbed him. And my sword burned away like a piece of wood.’ Pippin’s face was anxious. ‘Well, you had better come with me as quick as you can,’ he said. ‘I wish I could carry you. You aren’t fit to walk any further. They shouldn’t have let you walk at all; but you must forgive them. So many dreadful things have happened in the City, Merry, that one poor hobbit coming in from battle is easily overlooked.’ ‘It’s not always a misfortune being overlooked,’ said Merry. ‘I was overlooked just now by—no, no, I can’t speak of it. Help me, Pippin! It’s all going dark again, and my arm is so cold.’ ‘Lean on me, Merry lad!” said Pippin. ‘Come now. Foot by foot. It’s not far.’ ‘Are you going to bury me?’ said Merry. ‘No, indeed!’ said Pippin, trying to sound cheerful, though his heart was wrung with fear and pity. ‘No, we are going to the Houses of Healing.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that
— Rohit Gore, The Guardian Angels
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
— Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It
People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
— Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution
The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.
— Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,Let him combat for that of his neighbours;Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,And get knocked on the head for his labours.To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan,And is always as nobly requited;Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can,And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.
— George Gordon Byron
A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am saying to you that after a battle each soldier will have different stories to tell, vastly different stories, and that when a was is ended it is as if there have been a million wars, or as many wars as there were soldiers.
— Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato
If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.
— Sabrina Childress, Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor
And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.
— William Napier, Attila: The Judgement
Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.
— Steve V. Cypert, Scapemaker
We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.
— Neal Shusterman, UnWholly
The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. "You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight , the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing." Battle fever. I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can!
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Fighting is better than this waiting,” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you’re armored it’s hard for anyone to hurt you.”“Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her.Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in 1578. Croats have a duty and obligation to learn about Gvozdansko.
— Vinko Vrbanic
The Universe Always Has Your Back.
— Kris Carr
Solitude is our greatest teacher
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
When God is not in the first place in our lives, everything else loses its meaning.
— ANIKOR Daniel
We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
— Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
You were created to know abundance ... even spiritual and sexual abundance.
— Tina Schermer Sellers, Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.
— David Frawley, How I Became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma
A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.
— Atalina Wright, Unbound
Geometria est archetypus pulchritudinis mundi-Mathematics is the archetype of the beauty of the world-Kepler
— Kepler
As one of the seven billion human beings, I believe everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world.
— HH DALAI LAMA
Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.
— Alan Cohen, Enough Already: The Power of Radical Contentment
The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
My feet, bare, lightly graced your face. My soul ascended to the sky, magnificent, as that of two thousand thrushes. Grounded I am by your white light. My dear Mother Earth, forgive me for intruding." - Susan Marie
— Susan Marie
Just 'get' the 'One' in All. Then live accordingly. That's all.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Just get the 'One' in All. Then live accordingly. That's all.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.
— Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
A strong feeling of happiness and a strong instinct to do what’s right will come to your life, when you’re within your purpose and God's purpose for you.
— Daniel Marques, The 88 Secret Codes of the Power Elite: The Complete Truth about Making Money with the Law of Attraction and Creating Miracles in Life that is Being Hidden from You with Mind Programming
Judgement is not punishment, judgment is verdict. Judgement always gives an opportunity for life to change.
— Tahira Amir Khan, Through the Golden Door: The Doorway to Our Advancement
There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering.
— Daniel Marques, The 88 Secret Codes of the Power Elite: The Complete Truth about Making Money with the Law of Attraction and Creating Miracles in Life that is Being Hidden from You with Mind Programming
There’s no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they’re merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe.
— Daniel Marques, The 88 Secret Codes of the Power Elite: The Complete Truth about Making Money with the Law of Attraction and Creating Miracles in Life that is Being Hidden from You with Mind Programming
A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ego-less, in time, you will no longer be God-less.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty.
— Gian Kumar
May we all be blessed with the knowledge of the Most Ancient of DaysThat we may realise we are all one in existenceAnd in that awareness may we find peace...
— R.Chapman
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.
— Gerard Way
Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
— Nikki Giovanni
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Juliette." I close my eyes. He says, "I don't want you to call me Warner anymore." I open my eyes. "I want you to know me," he says, breathless, his fingers pushing a stray strand of hair away from my face. "I don't want to be Warner with you," he says. "I want it to be different now. I want you to call me Aaron.
— Tahereh Mafi
I can see he thinks he's the ultimate creation, and he seems to believe every woman here is his Eve, created from his ribcage for him to enjoy. I'm both aroused and infuriated, and this is the most confusing feeling I've ever felt in my life." Brooke Dumas, REAL
— Katy Evans, Real
When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
— Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?
— Takehiko Inoue
You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
— John Green, Paper Towns
I know love is real because I feel it.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun?You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place?Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.
— Takehiko Inoue
I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!
— Ethan Luck
Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
Do whatever you like because life is short
— Sujanā
Be real to others. You can be fake only to yourself.
— quotewriter
That's not FOR REAL.
— Deyth Banger, The Diary 2
So much possibility lives within the beauty of your authenticity. Be real.
— Scott Stabile
the idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life.
— Deyth Banger