Quotes About Life In Trenches

#1. Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life. - Author: Charles R. Swindoll

#2. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. - Author: Annie Dillard

#3. Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom. - Author: Mike Yaconelli

#4. I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches. - Author: Alain De Botton

#5. Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city. - Author: Zeno Of Citium

#6. You don't go through things with people and not love them for it. It's like those guys in the army who fight in muddy trenches and drag each other out of harm's way and are blood brothers for life because of it all. Only in our case, my mom and I face eviction notices and power shutoffs together. - Author: Lara Zielin

#7. Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#8. How can we delight in our good fortune when we know that it must end, and that one of us will end it? Every day makes us richer, and brings us one day nearer to our doom. - Author: Peter S. Beagle

#9. There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act. - Author: Tom Robbins

#10. I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. - Author: Joel Edgerton

#11. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance. - Author: Bruce Bairnsfather