Died Quote by Tim O'Brien Download Open image “Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.” — Tim O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Died Embarrassed Emotional baggage Men War
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“...they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died” — W H Auden Taylor Copy Share Image
If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The men would all say that they had died,' Gilligan said. 'These were the most incorrigibly violent characters. They would all say that they… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“I never saw a man killed before.’ ‘You’re lucky.’ ‘You’ve seen a lot of death, then?’ Logen winced. In his youth, he would have… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and… — James Gilligan Copy Share Image
Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it." Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo. — Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira Copy Share Image
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all. — Phyllis Logan Copy Share Image
