Dreams Quote by Tim O'Brien

“They carried their reputations. They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed…

— Tim O'Brien

“It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that’s all it was. And right then I submitted. I would go to the war—I would…

— Tim O'Brien

“...they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died”

— W H Auden Taylor

“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

“There is no glory in war—only good men dying terrible deaths.”

— Harold G. Moore

“Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises? Half the time the promises were never asked of them…

— Tad Williams

“All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.”

— Terry Brooks

“Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most…

— Michael Ennis

“it’s better to be embarrassed than dead.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

— John Steinbeck

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin