“When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?”

“When you can’t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.”

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

“When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate of an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote.”

“Don’t lose your joy for life. When you grow old you may still exist, but you will have ceased to live.”

“There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.”