Romance Quote by Bruce Bairnsfather

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who…

— Audie Murphy

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things…

— Anonymous

“The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the slit of…

— Sharon Olds

Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms.…

— Pat Barker

“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more British lives…

— Arthur Stanley Gould Lee

“The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of…

— Bao Ninh

“Wars aren't fought in the trenches rather in the mind, body, and soul. For life is the battle field, society and emotions are the…

— Curtis Reeves

“The home the military top brass had created for themselves was "picturesque, romantic and unreal", he wrote. "It was as though men were playing…

— Margot Asquith

“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them.…

— R.W. Schmidt

“so many white roses whose names won’t survive either, resistance groups and newspapers now as forgotten as soldiers waiting for the enemy veiled in…

— Marie-Claire Blais