“What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.”

— Paulo Coelho

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer

Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch. III The Poet: How to Party

“…. most of our textbooks and commentaries on leadership and the mastery of the moral problem in battle are written by senior officers who are either wholly lacking in combat experience or have been for long periods so far removed from the reality of small arms action that they have come to forget what were once their most vital convictions and impressions.”

S.L.A. Marshall (1900–1977) United States Army general and Military historian

Author's note. p. 9-10.
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command (1947)

“Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.”

P. C. Cast book Hunted

Source: Hunted

“Not one scar on my heart came from the enemy. They all came from people who said they "loved" me.”

movie Peaky Blinders

Character Thomas Shelby

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

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“What is precious is never to forget
The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth”

Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters

"I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great"
Poems (1933)
Context: What is precious is never to forget
The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;
Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light,
Nor its grave evening demand for love;
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.