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Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Vera Brittain

Birthname

Birthday: December 29, 1893

Death: March 29, 1970

Educated At: Somerville College

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Pacifist, Feminist, Nurse, Journalist, Novelist

Spouse: George Catlin

Total quotes: 2

“The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spiritual death to find another, seems to me one of the strongest arguments against suicide that life can provide. There may not be - I believe that there is not - after death, but nothing could prove more conclusively than my own brief but eventful history the fact that resurrection is possible within our limited span of earthly time.”

— Vera Brittain, Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

Tagged: Don't Give Up

“When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.”

— Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)

Tagged: first lines of books, World War I, WWI, Amazing Lines, Tragedy, War, WW1

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