Every man Quote by Patrick Ness

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

— Patrick Ness

“For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the…

— Magus Guidan

“The only difference between life here and on the battlefield was there we believed that the outcome of the war would be different, and…

— Andrew Krivak

“Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling…

— Arthur Mathews

“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His…

— wilfred owen

“He is the true soldier who knows how to die and stand his ground in the midst of a hail of bullets.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You’re never more alive than in battle.” “Never more dead after,” I say. “Ah, philosophy,” he smiles. “I didn’t know you had it in…

— Patrick Ness

“War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.”

— Katherine L. Walker

“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

“Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!”

— Pat Mills

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“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