Quotes About Soldiering On

#1. Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

Kate Winslet

#4. She didn't want to need anything, particularly something - or someone - she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on

Julie Anne Long

#5. War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#6. No soldier ever really survives a war.

Audie Murphy

#7. The woman smiles. The smile is neither pleasant nor unpleasant: it is a smile like fine silver plate, used for one occasion and polished and put away once finished.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#8. Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

Rick Riordan

#9. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.

Kathleen Koen

#10. But I find soldiering false, a broken way to manage people who should be bound to you in love, not fear.

Kameron Hurley

#11. We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

Alistair Begg

#12. How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

Steven Wright

#13. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

Carolyn Brown

#14. The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Timothy West

#15. Passion, Baird reckoned, was what would take men across the river and up the breach. Damn scientific soldiering now. The science of siege warfare had opened the city, but only a screaming and insane passion would take men inside.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

Julia Cameron

#17. Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

Sebastian Vettel

#18. Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield

#19. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

#20. If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

Geraldine Brooks

#21. When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.

Jennifer Rardin

#22. I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Michael Winter

#23. My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#24. So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said

Bernard Cornwell

#25. When my blood tells me to wander, I know enough to trust it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

Mike Jackson

#27. This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Lew Wallace

#28. A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Albert Kesselring

#29. So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.

Bernard Cornwell

#30. If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

Irving Kirsch

#31. The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.

Seth Dickinson

#32. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Robert A. Heinlein

#33. The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

Douglas MacArthur