Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

No Victory Without Suffering

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?