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Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?

Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?
– Margaret Atwood

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  1. Meaningless! Meaningless!- says the Teacher.-œUtterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.-Ecclesiastes 1:2 – Anonymous
  2. It wasn’t so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly. – Margaret Atwood
  3. Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven’t realized that todayis tomorrow’s nostalgia. – Zeena Schreck
  4. No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. – Rabih Alameddine
  5. I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. – Margaret Atwood
  6. Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist. – Hayao Miyazaki
  7. I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless. – Oli Anderson
  8. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
  9. Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same. – Will Cuppy
  10. You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
  11. War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
  12. The fact is that I hate this city. I’ve hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it. – Margaret Atwood
  13. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around. – Margaret Atwood
  14. -¦dancing in the carnage and the flames. – Rosemary A Johns
  15. Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well. – Bruce D Perry
  16. Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench. – Charbel Tadros
  17. Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith. – Manel Loureiro
  18. War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood
  19. Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
  20. What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other -˜flaws’. – Dada Bhagwan
  21. When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench? – Zia Haider Rahman
  22. He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse. – Stephen King
  23. He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it. – Shane KP ONeill
  24. My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death. – Christine Fonseca
  25. The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation – Daniel Lee Edstrom
  26. Run. Flee. ???? off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you. – St John Morris
  27. Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. – Margaret Atwood
  28. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never. – Amy Harmon
  29. Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
  30. One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment. – Joshua Ferris
  31. I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can’t see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know. – Kathe Koja
  32. Life is warped. I’m just in sync. – Margaret Atwood
  33. What’s this war called again?--œThe Hundred Years War.--œHmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one. – Karl Wiggins
  34. Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world? – Gaston Bachelard
  35. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  36. War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. – William Faulkner
  37. The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
  39. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. – Mark Kurlansky
  40. War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. – Alan Alda

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