Dead Quote by Margarita Engle

“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

“The dead do not see, unless they look from a brighter place than this darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night.”

— Stephen King

“The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their…

— Herta Müller

“Some soldiers are buried in the battlefield, but others carry that battlefield with them for the rest of their lives.”

— Daniel Arenson

“All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.”

— George R.R. Martin

“And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. ”

— Matthew Arnold

“Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“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

“one was a soldier and was ready to kill then they also must be prepared to be killed.”

— Tony Tran

“For this one night, I saw with my own eyes the balance, the madness, the respect, the damage, the love, the intensity, and the…

— Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive

“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