Quoty search results for tag: experience http://www.quoty.org/tag/experience That instant penetrated us, our brains, our nerves, our flesh, our spirits, and did not abandon us for many days.

Author: Maria Luisa Perduca-Nurse-Silver Medal of Merit Red Cross 218, Source: Santanu Das
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience horror trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6499The top of his head was split open and his brain was bulging out, suddenly he began to scream, a scream that I soon began to know only too well... it was the sound produced from a human being in a state of agony, which eliminated reason.

Author: Katherine Hodges North-Ambulance Driver WW1 85, Source: Santanu Das
Saved by highflyingbabe in body experience horror trauma wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6498When I think of your Red Cross practises on boy scouts, and the grim reality, it makes one wonder. And the biggest wonder of it all is the grit there is in them, and the price they are individually and unquestioningly paying for doing their bit in this War.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 23
Saved by highflyingbabe in patriotism experience knowledge death futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6492the 'carnage' is being appauling, and we have been practically in it, as far as horrors go.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 42
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge witness horror trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6486The three of us listened glumly to the shrapnel raining down like a thunder-shower upon the trees in the park-those quiet trees which on the night of my return from Malta had made death and horror seem so unbelievably remote.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 365
Saved by highflyingbabe in suffering experience hospital trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6472"He's been dangerously wounded-and it doesn't say how!" It didn't say how. Now that I knew so much about wounds, that vagueness seemed the telegram's worst infliction.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 339
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge hospital wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6471One could not, he said, continually reflect upon the material and spiritual waste involved whenever that highly trained product, a man in the prime of life, was instantaneously killed by a stray bullet, or life at the front would be one long misery.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth,
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge death shield horror trauma futility helpless ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6469owing to casualties at the front, and aid-raids and other troubles at home, neither life nor happiness nor peace of mind could be counted on for more than a few days at a time.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 305
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience hospital futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6466To young women delicately brought up in fastidious homes, it was a perturbing demonstration of life as lived in the publicity of the slums.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 300
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience hospital youth trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6465Our "beds" at night were swinging iron cots, made up with the same blankets and mattresses as the sick me had used. Sleep, owing to the stuffy heat and the persistent flies, was almost impossible.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 300
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience hospital horror trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6464some of us were ready to confront danger and suffer martyrdom to the limit of endurance.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 294
Saved by highflyingbabe in duty experience responsibility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6463The ironies of war, I reflected sadly, were more than strange; in terms of a rational universe they were quite inexplicable. But now the universe had become irrational, and nothing was turning out as it once seemed to have been ordained.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 287-8
Saved by highflyingbabe in patriotism experience knowledge death trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6460a gangrenous leg wound, slimy and green and scarlet, with the bone laid bare-turned me sick and faint for a moment that I afterwards remembered with humiliation

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 211
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience trauma wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6451They sound ludicrous enough now, these rumours, these optimisms, these assurances, to us who still wonder why, in spite of all our incompetence, we managed to "win" the War. But at the time they helped us to live. I cannot, indeed, imagine how long we should have succeeded in living without them.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 163
Saved by highflyingbabe in suffering experience knowledge guilt horror trauma futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6438an apprenticeship in pain, desolation and grief. Yet one of the problems of such 'apprenticeship in history'-something less often spoken about-is the issue of owning experience.

Author: Santanu Das, Source: Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, 226
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge gender horror ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6419