Battle Quote by Robert E. Howard

“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them…

— Charles Spurgeon

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look…

— Oliver Goldsmith

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams…

— J. G. Holland

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life…

— Yann Martel

“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence, and evil…

— Luo Guanzhong

“and on the other side for lack of sun there is death perhaps waiting for you in the uproar of a dazzling whirlwind with…

— Tristan Tzara

“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches the tempest;…

— Victor Hugo

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

— Nikolai Gogol

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as…

— Joseph Conrad

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing…

— Theodore Roethke