The Wars
Timothy Findley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings”
“People can only be found in what they do.”
“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”
“Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.”
“I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.”
“You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know...”
“Rodwell wandered into No Man's Land and put a bullet through his ears. On Sunday, Robert sat on his bed in the old hotel at Bailleul and read what Rodwell had written. To my daughter, Laurine; Love your mother. Make your prayers against despair. I am alive in everything I touch. Touch these pages and you have me in your fingertips. We survive in one another. Everything lives forever. Believe it. Nothing dies. I am your father always.”
“Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.”
“...no one belongs to anyone. We're all cut off at birth with a knife and left at the mercy of strangers. You hear that? Strangers. I know what you want to do. I know you're going to go away to be a soldier. Well-you can go to hell. I'm not responsible. I'm just another stranger. Birth I can give you-but life I cannot. I can't keep anyone alive. Not anymore.”
“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”
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