Cinema Quote by Mark Kermode

“The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to…

— George R.R. Martin

“Blood continued to color the air as the crew sliced through monster necks. And they roared their glee. They were Shiv Crew. And that,…

— Laken Cane

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among…

— Guy Sajer

“The slaughter was slow, every single act carried out with precision and care. Once he’d sheared her like a lamb, she was left on…

— Lily White

“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”

— Tyne Daly

“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…

— George R.R. Martin

“If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.”

— David C. Lindberg

“The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death…

— Robyn Young

“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and…

— Thornton Wilder

“Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like…

— Oscar Wilde