Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, War, Sacrifice

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• War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Century, Horrible

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.21, Booklassic

• Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, War, Heart

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.35, Booklassic

• Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Thinking, Little Sister

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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