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Top 30 Barbara Nickless Quotes (2025 Update)

Barbara Nickless Quote: “I’d been raised on excuses. But the Marine Corps taught me that excuses don’t matter. That excuses – even when prettied up as reasons – are just a way to avoid doing what needs doing.”

1. “I’d been raised on excuses. But the Marine Corps taught me that excuses don’t matter. That excuses – even when prettied up as reasons – are just a way to avoid doing what needs doing.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.”

2. “Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Survival is a short-term strategy. Don’t confuse it with living. Life isn’t about whether you live or die. Because we’re all gonna die – not a damn thing any of us can do about that.” “Right,” I snapped. “The war didn’t help me figure that out.” “Rather,” he went on, “life is about the grace. About making sure that while you are alive, you’re living for something bigger than yourself.”

3. “Survival is a short-term strategy. Don’t confuse it with living. Life isn’t about whether you live or die. Because we’re all gonna die – not a damn thing any of us can do about that.” “Right,” I snapped. “The war didn’t help me figure that out.” “Rather,” he went on, “life is about the grace. About making sure that while you are alive, you’re living for something bigger than yourself.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel, their hair less gray or more so. But photographs carry the truth, if only one small piece of it.”

4. “Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel, their hair less gray or more so. But photographs carry the truth, if only one small piece of it.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us off to an unwinnable war. Some of us are heroes. But some of us never had the chance. And some of us got slammed face-first into the fact that when we looked inside, we found nothing heroic at all. – Corporal.”

5. “Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us off to an unwinnable war. Some of us are heroes. But some of us never had the chance. And some of us got slammed face-first into the fact that when we looked inside, we found nothing heroic at all. – Corporal.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “The only way you feel safe in a relationship is if you feel free to leave it.”

6. “The only way you feel safe in a relationship is if you feel free to leave it.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “God teaches forgiveness. But he first cleaned house.”

7. “God teaches forgiveness. But he first cleaned house.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “In a moment of crisis, your body takes over. It knows what it needs to do to keep you alive, and that’s what it does. This instinct for survival comes from your reptilian brain- most basic, simplistic part of who you are. Your reptilian brain breathes for you. Digest and defecates for you. Watches out for you. And if it deems the threat high enough – it kills for you.”

8. “In a moment of crisis, your body takes over. It knows what it needs to do to keep you alive, and that’s what it does. This instinct for survival comes from your reptilian brain- most basic, simplistic part of who you are. Your reptilian brain breathes for you. Digest and defecates for you. Watches out for you. And if it deems the threat high enough – it kills for you.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Love is like falling off a cliff. It’s good for a moment, but it never ends well.”

9. “Love is like falling off a cliff. It’s good for a moment, but it never ends well.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “One man’s sin is – by quirk of fate or need or desperation – another man’s necessity. – Sydney.”

10. “One man’s sin is – by quirk of fate or need or desperation – another man’s necessity. – Sydney.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “But don’t be afraid. It’s just God rearranging the clouds.”

11. “But don’t be afraid. It’s just God rearranging the clouds.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “I’ve spent too much of my life trying to leave the past behind. But the past is a leech. Digs its head into you and sucks your blood until it leaves you dry.”

12. “I’ve spent too much of my life trying to leave the past behind. But the past is a leech. Digs its head into you and sucks your blood until it leaves you dry.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “What fools we mortals are to think that the plans we make are anything more than a soap bubble blown against a hurricane, a frail and fleeting wish destined to burst.”

13. “What fools we mortals are to think that the plans we make are anything more than a soap bubble blown against a hurricane, a frail and fleeting wish destined to burst.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Nietzsche said that whoever fights monsters should be careful not to become one. I say, sometimes that’s all you’ve got. – Sydney Parnell.”

14. “Nietzsche said that whoever fights monsters should be careful not to become one. I say, sometimes that’s all you’ve got. – Sydney Parnell.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Scientists say that when we recall something from our past, it isn’t as simple as taking out a photograph from an album. Because it isn’t the original memory we pull up. Rather, it’s a slightly different version of that memory – a memory of a memory. With each retrieval, the memory is altered.”

15. “Scientists say that when we recall something from our past, it isn’t as simple as taking out a photograph from an album. Because it isn’t the original memory we pull up. Rather, it’s a slightly different version of that memory – a memory of a memory. With each retrieval, the memory is altered.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “War is a drug; it’ll call you back until it kills you. – Corporal.”

16. “War is a drug; it’ll call you back until it kills you. – Corporal.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “Every person’s life is a struggle against a world filled with resistance. That resistance may defeat us or warp us or crush us. But sometimes, we find a strength we didn’t know we had. And with that newly recognized strength, we move past the hard times. And we become a little stronger for the next round.”

17. “Every person’s life is a struggle against a world filled with resistance. That resistance may defeat us or warp us or crush us. But sometimes, we find a strength we didn’t know we had. And with that newly recognized strength, we move past the hard times. And we become a little stronger for the next round.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Can you let war split a man in two, then turn around and expect the pieces to fit back together? I.”

18. “Can you let war split a man in two, then turn around and expect the pieces to fit back together? I.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “We’ve all been at least a little broken by the world. But the world only notices when we try to hurt it back.”

19. “We’ve all been at least a little broken by the world. But the world only notices when we try to hurt it back.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Those who are the least guilty are the ones who feel most at fault.”

20. “Those who are the least guilty are the ones who feel most at fault.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “You get to the point where you’re just empty. Empty of feelings and thoughts. Of bone and flesh and blood. Empty of hope and despair. You aren’t dead. But you aren’t living, either.”

21. “You get to the point where you’re just empty. Empty of feelings and thoughts. Of bone and flesh and blood. Empty of hope and despair. You aren’t dead. But you aren’t living, either.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Nina Simone wafted into the room. Cohen had queued up what I thought of as his deep-thinking playlist and piped it through the built-in sound system. I loved the great women of jazz. Simone, Holiday, Vaughan.”

22. “Nina Simone wafted into the room. Cohen had queued up what I thought of as his deep-thinking playlist and piped it through the built-in sound system. I loved the great women of jazz. Simone, Holiday, Vaughan.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “We are part of what society can’t bear to remember. Because if they really think about it, if they really look at us and realize the cost we’ve paid to keep them safe. They can’t live with the guilt.”

23. “We are part of what society can’t bear to remember. Because if they really think about it, if they really look at us and realize the cost we’ve paid to keep them safe. They can’t live with the guilt.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Could be your worst self is also your best.”

24. “Could be your worst self is also your best.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “We are defined by family before we are defined by anything else; they are our first and primal debt.”

25. “We are defined by family before we are defined by anything else; they are our first and primal debt.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “Don’t think of me as a role model. Think of me as someone who’s made mistakes so you don’t have to.”

26. “Don’t think of me as a role model. Think of me as someone who’s made mistakes so you don’t have to.”

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Barbara Nickless Quote: “And I ran hard into a truth I’d known since Iraq. You could throw everything you had at a problem – firepower, manpower, logistical support. You could get a lot of really smart people working on it. You could even get a lot of people to sacrifice their lives for it. And, in the end, might be all you’ve got is the same problem and a higher body count. Forget saving the world. Sometimes you can’t even save one small child.”

27. “And I ran hard into a truth I’d known since Iraq. You could throw everything you had at a problem – firepower, manpower, logistical support. You could get a lot of really smart people working on it. You could even get a lot of people to sacrifice their lives for it. And, in the end, might be all you’ve got is the same problem and a higher body count. Forget saving the world. Sometimes you can’t even save one small child.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “A war in five senses. Blood, sweat, tears, dust, pain.”

28. “A war in five senses. Blood, sweat, tears, dust, pain.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “We always say live for today and don’t waste time worrying about tomorrow. But what keeps us up at night is knowing that tomorrow is roaring down on us like a tsunami, and a lot of us don’t know how to swim.”

29. “We always say live for today and don’t waste time worrying about tomorrow. But what keeps us up at night is knowing that tomorrow is roaring down on us like a tsunami, and a lot of us don’t know how to swim.”

— Barbara Nickless

Barbara Nickless Quote: “Wisdom is earned trench by trench, street by street, from one battle line to the next.”

30. “Wisdom is earned trench by trench, street by street, from one battle line to the next.”

— Barbara Nickless

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