Dream When You're Feeling Blue Quotes

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“There are some things you never say good-bye to”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“A family is no place for privacy!”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“We're so far away from those stars”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his words- all about how we were embarked on a great crusade, that the hopes and prayers of a liberty loving people were going with us....I got gooseflesh when he asked for the blessing of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. But how to reconcile that with spilled guts on a beach and flies in the eyes of some dead nineteen year old kid who traded his life for some words on paper?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all the things you felt you could no longer have.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.' 'I know that,' she said, 'but where do we eat?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“I'm sorry! It's just that it hurts so much and it never stops!”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“Is war a sin?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

“  CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE DEDICATION APRIL 1943 VALENTINE’S DAY, 1946 SEPTEMBER 2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue