We Shall Pass Quotes

“The soldier exists in a private hell half deaf and half blinded by poisonous fumes. He is suspended on a thread over a void containing all the terrible ways there are to die and he thinks about all the things he’d always meant to do and had never got round to doing. Most men are a confusion of half truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass

“The days of our lives are quickly forgotten. War days are vivid, protracted, indelible. We are as moths who singe our wings and still fly back into the flame. The soldier exists in a private hell half deaf and half blinded by poisonous fumes.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass

“They had never sat together like this – real coffee in a café; people living normal lives. It’s the small things that matter most, the trivialities, the daily routines. We struggle and dream, strive for purpose and meaning, but ten minutes having coffee with friends in a Spanish café. These are the things that make us human, the things we remember.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass

“Life has mysterious patterns, that some things, even when they appear unfathomable, were meant to be.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass

“The days of our lives are quickly forgotten. War days are vivid, protracted, indelible. We are as moths who singe our wings and still fly back into the flame.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass