Quote

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

Gregory David Roberts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Place
Choice
Without
Choose
Thing
Fight
Men
Side
Life
Sides
Choices
Fighting
War

More quotes by Gregory David Roberts

Image
There's no such thing as forever.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Powerful people have no regrets.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
Gregory David Roberts
Image
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
Gregory David Roberts