Quotes About Peace

I always seemed to be in a lull, a strange pocket of emptiness into which no men came, and I was never threatened.

No habría ningún tipo de guerras si los soldados matasen únicamente a quienes les han hecho una ofensa personal, Pelida. —

Mi exilio podría aplacar la ira de los vivos, pero no la de los difuntos.

Si chaque soldat ne tuait que les ennemis qui l'ont personnellement offensé, Pelides, il n'y aurait aucune guerre

days slipping by in idyll.

My body felt hollow in its relief, as if a storm had gone through.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it-in such way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom

Give us both peace. Burn me and bury me. I will wait for you among the shades.

Es correcto buscar la paz para los muertos. Tú y yo sabemos bien que no la hay para quienes sobreviven.

I lay on the ground after, breathing with effort. I would be left in peace. Peace. I would have laughed if I were not so ill.

But there is harbor here.

Yes. But it is not his fault. I forgot to say I wished him for a companion." Therapon was the word he used. A brother-in-arms sworn to a prince by blood oaths and love. In war, these men were his honor guard; in peace, his closest advisers.

Sometimes you must be content with ignorance

I'm sure you're right. After all, Hector hasn't done anything to you." He smiled then, as I had hoped he would. "Yes," he said. "I've heard that.

the drowsy tangle of his limbs.

I DID NOT GO straight back to the palace. I could not. I went to the olive grove instead, to sit among the twisting trunks and fallen fruits. It was far from the sea. I did not wish to smell the salt now.

How many times would I have to learn? Every moment of my peace was a lie, for it came only at the gods' pleasure.

Centuries had passed. The earth's wounds had healed and the peace had held. But the grudges of gods are as deathless as their flesh...

Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.

Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

When Death Is Close

If that's what dying is like, I think I can do it!

That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.)