Ron Shoemaker

“There’s also a word in German, Sehnsucht, used to describe an indefinable and intense yearning for a person, or place, or an experience, or state that is unattainable or beyond one’s current reach . . . This loneliness resides deep inside every one of us, whether a person is in a relationship, a marriage, or a group, or a city—it’s a shadowy part of who we are as humans.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Swimmer

“Why this longing for Life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard”
― Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

“War wasn’t glorious. It wasn’t won because one side had heroes and the other had cowards. The truth was that no side had more right to victory than the other. No man had more right to live than the man he was trying to kill. War was pain and fear and dying men screaming for their mothers. It was the stink of blood and the screech of shells. It was filthy foxholes and relentless rain, thick sucking mud and blizzards which swallowed up the sky and the ground and reduced the world to a scream.”
― Catherine Hokin, The Secret Hotel in Berlin

“with a memory about as reliable as a politician’s promise.”
― Marcia Clark, Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham