Quotes by Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Doe

Dying

Mean

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Fool

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Faces

Turns

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

Enough

Jingoism

War

Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

Capes

Names

Running

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.

Survivor

Veteran

Weight

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Built

Wreckage

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on. And it is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Forgiving

Thinking

War

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

Bombs

Horse

Littles

I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

Generations

Golden

Thinking

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Able

Alive

Asylum Seekers

Athlete

Bad Day

Beautiful

Being A Father

Bombs

Born

Brave

Bravery

Built

Capes

Clouds

Country

Courageous

Criminals

Daily Mail

Dare

Decision

Died

Differences

Different

Distance

Doctors

Doe

Dream

Drug

Dying

Ears

Easy

Enough

Events

Faces

Father

Fighting

Fool

Forgiving

Generations

Girl

Girlfriend

Giving

Golden

Government

Grandfather

Grief

Guy

Habit

Hands

Heart

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Chris Cleave

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu