"When you're scared, you're still hanging on to……" — Sebastian Junger
"When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before."
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46 Quotes by Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger has 46 quotes on this site.
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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in…
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The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The…
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In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller…
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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And…
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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
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It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have…
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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not…
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I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of…
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The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that…
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Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens…
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I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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