120 result(s) for Vera Brittain Quotes.
"I have learned ... that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened."
"Perhaps...to surrender dreams ... is merely to give them a new shape."
"You cannot make me different. I am a lover, thinker, writer, explorer - but I will never be a lady."
"Perhaps...some day love will return to her, bearing with it the knowledge that love's strength lies in its contradictions."
"And the world returned to being a two-voiced thing: love, and the agony of love."
"Perhaps...it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
"What a delight it is for friends to lie upon a bank of violets, the while unfolding the wicked plots of the day."
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"Time is a great sculptor. We need only wait for its work to be accomplished."
"To be young is to travel with the heart along unknown roads."
"When you are young, you begin to commit inconsistencies. A youth does not know how to be defeated; the old man does not know how to conquer."
"Each solider is someone’s son, or daughter. The implication is exacting."
"I regard it as improper to have debates in public with those whose qualifications are doubtful."
"If you think in pictures, the hope of capturing a true image of a feeling is small; a shadow has fallen across the sensorium."
"I write at every spare moment, for never again shall I feel a desire for creativity."
"To pull down someone else’s wall, as one needs to do to go through to the past, is never desirable."
"The past is gone. Believe me, it cannot be relived through dreams or art."
"One must believe in possibility. It’s the only way to succeed against odds that seem insurmountable."
"The path of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."
"Sometimes it is the ones who have the least to say that ultimately have the most profound thoughts."
"The fire of life burns low and it’s necessary to kindle the flame endlessly to keep from being consumed by the dark."
"All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity."
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country as the profiteer or the looter."
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
"We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us."
"I was only truly comfortable when I was with literary friends."
"Death is less bitter punishment than death-in-life."
"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost."
"In every passionate heart there lives a stupid one."
"It was miraculous, this vast awakening of the British people."
"I stretched out my hands and caught the plane."
"Perhaps I am too proud, but I would rather be respected than loved."
"I cannot run from happiness when I feel its white hands on my throat."
"Sometimes I think we ask too much of a single human heart."
"To contain both life and tragedy within me is to be made of lead and rust."
"Perhaps... a new obligation will arise from the curse."
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"I have more near-encounters than direct ones with those I loved."
"Learning and knowing are two different things."
"Survival of the fittest, which wants me, has treacherous, cowardly eyes."
"Every wound will shape me, every scar will build my throne."
"When encountering rascals, always throw away the script and improvise."
"Perhaps...to be young and to dream is a gift, more than any other gift in the world."
"As long as God permits me, I shall, every Remembrance Day, lay my tributes of remembrance and affection in Westminster Abbey."
"What comes out of the war is a recognition of sympathy, pity, and sometimes the creation of paragraphs setting out a certain course of conduct."
"No nation on the globe was more infuriated by the cruelty of unscrupulous radio listeners."
"We live through our tragedies, and sometimes to understand them we need the passionate guttersnipe."
"There is nothing to fear except that which you have no basis not to fear."
"It was one of the stock phrases of the German governors in the war that the upper classes in Britain were predominantly philosophically minded."
"We have lost our belief in God only to find in the multitudes of relatives a God substitute."
"So society accepts differentials of wealth and power as inevitable; and even more perverse, it accepts youth as a key to happiness."
"The beginning of something is always more difficult than the end."
"War is war only in so far as there are no warriors."
"To be young is to create and imagine a world free of inequality."
"Feeling sorry for yourself is not required. Strive for a better world."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past; it exists in our memories and shapes our future."
"The most unexpected ways lead to the most beautiful outcomes. Keep going."
"In the depths of tragedy, we find a spark of humanity that lights the way to hope."
"What you believe in makes you who you are. Choose your beliefs wisely."
"Great strength lies in standing up for what's right, even when you stand alone."
"The courage to continue is what separates the living from the fallen."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway."
"Perhaps... a large part of our lives is about unlearning the beliefs that were taught to us."
"To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, for while you can never really put down roots, you are free to choose your direction."
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied."
"Memory has never been accused of starving to death, only of indigestion."
"The past is always shadowing you, even when the sun is shining."
"Life could be wonderful if we could only bring ourselves to face it."
"Youth... is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes."
"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
"Hope... is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
"Education made us, but it was also this that unmade us."
"The scars left by old wounds seek solace in the familiar sting of the present."
"One finds oneself bearing up under a burden without knowing precisely what the burden is."
"No joy is unmixed with a certain pain."
"Our most enduring scars may come not from the battles we've fought, but from the ones we've avoided."
"To forgive is not to forget, but a promise to remember without the burden of anger."
"The world is at the opposite end of our fingertips, yet still out of reach."
"The heart has a way of leading us astray, even when the mind knows better."
"Like shells on the shore, some memories are meant to be collected while others are best left to the tide."
"Perhaps...we never appreciate the music of the soul until it is over."
"For a long time I had pondered his abominable contradiction: that a man whose primary satisfaction is solitude should leave his caves and take a wife."
"You who mothered them -- you who married one of them, carefully -- those children bore your mark, and carried it in their innermost hearts."
"If we have nightmares, we thought it must be wiser to close our eyelids than stare into the darkness."
"Your courage must come from the infinite source of your young but immortal soul."
"I read that no less than fifty readers cancel their subscriptions to your clever little sheet."
"There is no magic in the world, for the only magic that exists is the magic of love."
"Within me burns the incandescent flame of a young person on a dangerous quest for knowledge."
"I must transcribe these wounded words of war with a trembling hand and a heavy heart."
"I ask: what is the consolation of a survivor's guilt, if not simply to go on?"
"I have studied the human mind with all the passion of a woman in search of her lover."
"In the trembling balance of fate, we find our destinies interwoven with threads of sorrow and joy."
"Each loss I suffer is tempered by the knowledge that I carry the memories of the fallen within me."
"One by one, we surrender our fragile illusions to the harsh light of reality."
"In the silence of my sorrow, I find the strength to speak out against the injustices of war."
"I refuse to let the horrors of war silence the cries of those who suffer in its wake."
"To love is to risk the pain of loss, but without love, life is a barren wasteland."
"I have learned that hope is the most precious gift we can give to those who have lost everything."
"In the darkness of despair, a single ray of hope can illuminate the path to redemption."
"My pen is my sword, and with it, I will fight for peace until my dying breath."
"Humor has to be learned very early. It has to be part of your whole attitude to life."
"All that humankind needs for good social organization means can be summed up in one word: education."
"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the world of imagination, with all its capacity for inconsistency."
"The discontent that lies in the souls of man rests like the head of Medusa on the social organization of which it forms a part."
"I have never been able to see what great intellectual capacity adds to the enjoyment of life."
"One cannot reach some kind of satisfactory reading of its troubled history without perhaps a more imaginative method than the straightforwardly methodical."
"It's not always an advantage to be able to read another's mind; the advantage might grow over time."
"A mind that is simply a mechanism preventing change would hardly be appropriate when there is much that has to be done."
"The first of the 'moves' belongs to the educator who has realized that they are also in an educative process."
"It is a miniature catastrophe to feel humiliated."
"One's life does not consist of words, and one's day doesn't consist of thoughts - thoughts are words."
"No good social organization can afford to have such liabilities listed and left to fester in the community."
"Many aspects of world were not designed with the needs of the individual mind in mind."
"The contemplative wish to meditate on their resistance to change, and who might finally change to meet resistance to change."
"Nothing makes a mind alert like continuing to learn and grow, even as the body grows old."
"An educational process suggests that things designed to be learned are expected to be remembered and applied a little beyond their apparent usefulness."
"The organization of time into work and leisure has hardly been approached with one's own psychological health in mind."
"The reader and writer may understand the kind of education they have received when it includes the art of practical knowledge"
"Insistence is a characteristic not altogether has been created."
"The possible use of thought might hardly consist in compiling, for no apparent reason, a vast, unselective quantity of material."
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