Battlefields Quotes

“It was dusk, on a Friday. The battered skeletons of trees tapered against the fresh starlight in No Man's Land. The sky offered curious glimpses of beauty, from time to time. The men wrote about it in their letters, describing sunsets in painstaking detail to their families, as if there was nothing to see at the front but crimson clouds and dusted rays of golden light.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“A purple sash crosses his doublet, pinned to his chest by a dozen medals he's never won from a hundred battlefields he's never stepped foot on.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“[P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.”
― Perry Anderson

“The battlefields of life were first meadows and gardens. We made them into battlefields, and by the same power, we must release the dark spell, so they are meadows and gardens once again.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Men will always be at battle,” the little girl said with an uncanny maturity. With her stride unbroken, she continued “Whether that battle is on a battlefield like this one, or on the most difficult battlefield of the heart and mind. It really doesn’t matter all that much, men will battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Better schooling may help you grab a better degree. But for winning in life you must learn from the hard battlefields of social living.”
― Sijin Bt

“Bealeton. Another sleepy hamlet was about to have its name written down in history in letters of blood.”
― Harry Turtledove, The Guns of the South

“I always thought she was born on the wrong side of the wall,' Elain admitted. 'She made ballrooms into battlefields and plotted like any general. Like you two,' she said, nodding to Cassian, and then, a bit more shyly, to Azriel.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“There are those who create adversaries by means of falsehood and propaganda. Once the divisions are heightened to a fever-pitch, these contrived adversaries are each placed on some socially engineered battlefield designed for a pitched battle of attrition. Yet the pinnacle of such social deception is that those who created this fabricated dynamic strategically insert themselves into it as the mitigating hero so that they might be elevated by the falsehood that they created, while the true heroes are left forgotten in the real battlefields where they have held the peace.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The wolves came running swiftly
To rend the battle-fallen.”
― Snorri Sturluson, King Harald's Saga