Bones Quote by David Gemmell

“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed”

— Nick Cave

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.…

— Samuel Johnson

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

— Gene Tierney

“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth…

— Patricia O'Brien

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices…

— Daniel Berrigan

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower…

— Terry Maggert

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

“Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the…

— Edward R. Murrow

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

— B. H. Liddell Hart