"How many more times do we have to……" — Ishmael Beah
"How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?"
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33 Quotes by Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah has 33 quotes on this site.
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We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet…
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ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where…
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My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
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My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be…
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This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.
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I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was…
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This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an…
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I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with…
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As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out…
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I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so…
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war?…
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The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about…
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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