{"quotes":[{"text":"It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of the war, you carry the memories of war, the time you have spend with your comrades, the times when you had to dug in to foxholes to avoid shelling, the times when you hate to see your comrade down on the ground, feeling of despair, atrocities of the war, missing families, home. They live through hell and often the most wounded, they live with the guilt, despair, of being in the war, they may be happy but deep down they are a different person. Not everyone is a hero. You live with the moments, time when you were unsuccessful, when your actions would have helped your comrades, when your actions get your comrades killed, you live with regret, joyous in the victory can never help you forget the time you have spent. You are victorious for the people you have lost, the decisions you have made, the courage you have shown but being victorious in the war has a price to pay, irrevocable. You can't take a memory back from a person, even if you lose your memory your imagination haunts you as deep down your sub conscious mind you know who you are, who you were. Close you eyes and you can very well see your past, you cant change your past, time you have spent, you live through all and hence you are a hero not for the glorious war for the times you have faced. Decoration with medals is not going to give your life back. The more you know, more experiences doesn't make it easy rather make its worse. Arms and ammunition kills you once and free you from the misery but the experiences of war kills you everyday, makes you cherish the times everyday through the life. You may forgot that you cant walk anymore, you may forget you cant use your right hand, you may forgot the scars on your face but you can never forgot war. Life without war is never easy and only the ones how survived through it can understand. Soldiers are taught to fight but the actual combat starts after war which you are not even trained for. You rely on your weapon, leaders, comrades, god, luck in the war but here you rely on your self to beat the horrors,they have seen hell, heaven, they have felt the mixed emotions of hope, despair, courage, victory, defeat, scared.","author":"Pushpa Rana","tags":["bond","comrades","defeat","despair","feelings","fight","gun","heaven","hell","horrors","kill","rebel","sacrifice","soldier","soldiers","suffer","tactics","victory","war","wars","weapons"],"id":46,"author_id":"Pushpa+Rana"},{"text":"Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.","author":"Stuart J. Scesney","tags":["ahent","gun","scesney","stuart"],"id":2211,"author_id":"Stuart+J.+Scesney"},{"text":"I died of a broken heart.Oh! And the gunshot wound to the chest!","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["broken","broken-heart","chest","died","gun","gunshot","heart","love","philosophy","wound"],"id":2973,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.","author":"Kass Morgan","tags":["bravery","execution","gun","love"],"id":3262,"author_id":"Kass+Morgan"},{"text":"Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration?I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer.She lit the match.","author":"Susanna Kaysen","tags":["aspirin","failed-attempt","gun","match","suicide"],"id":6866,"author_id":"Susanna+Kaysen"},{"text":"If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.","author":"Bruce Willis","tags":["life","fight","gun "],"id":12173,"author_id":"Bruce+Willis"},{"text":"The gun is not out of Irish politics.","author":"Ian Paisley","tags":["gun","irish","out "],"id":14865,"author_id":"Ian+Paisley"},{"text":"If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!","author":"Allan Rufus","tags":["better-world","gun","holding-hands","love","peace","people","together","trust","unity","unity-of-all-people"],"id":15373,"author_id":"Allan+Rufus"},{"text":"The word is my weapon. FIRE!","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","fight","fire","fireworks","gun","quote","rifle","saying","soldier-archetype","soldier-home-from-war","soldiers","terr","war","warfare","warfare-prayers","weapon","weapons","weapons-of-mass-destruction","word","word-of-god","wordplay","words-have-power","words-of-wisdom","words-to-inspire-you","words-to-live-by"],"id":19614,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.","author":"D.W. Griffith","tags":["cinema","film","filmmaking","girl","girls","gun","guns","movies"],"id":20295,"author_id":"D.W.+Griffith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":120,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}