Guy Sajer famous quotes

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
-- Guy Sajer

#Sleep #Reality #People

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.
-- Guy Sajer

#Regret #Important #Normal

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.
-- Guy Sajer

#Falling In Love #War #Soldier

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.
-- Guy Sajer

#War #Soldier #Depth

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.
-- Guy Sajer

#Memories #Men #Ideas

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.
-- Guy Sajer

#Problem

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.
-- Guy Sajer

#Disappointment #War #Order

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
-- Guy Sajer

#Expression #Wartime #Significance

I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words and expressions for what came later, even though they are not strong enough. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later. It's a mistake, for instance, to used the word frightful to describe a few broken up companions mixed into the ground: but it's a mistake that might be forgiven.
-- Guy Sajer

#Strong #Mistake #Expression

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.