Leon Trotsky Quotes

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, … vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

We are in the midst of war – war of the most bloody kind – a war of extermination. Freedom and slavery are interlocked in deadly embrace, and death is certain for one or the other party.... A crisis is just before us ... and only God knoweth where it will end.

Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

When you're 13 or 14, sometimes you wake up in a bad place. You feel like everything's out of your control. You don't know what to do.

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.

After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.