The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.