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The Wall

~2 min read • Updated Dec 15, 2025

Beautiful Quotes from The Wall

"We were here to protect something we no longer knew. We only knew that if we failed, we would become what we were meant to fear."

"Fear is a permanent thing. It is not something that suddenly comes and goes. Fear lives here, in the stones and in the salt water."

"The wall was the last thing a nation could do; the last thing humans could do to save themselves from the consequences of their own actions."

"Borders are not just lines on a map. They are in our minds, and minds are stronger than concrete."

"If outsiders can cross the wall, then you are no longer a defender. You are just an outsider who came a little later."

"We were a generation that never inherited hope. We only inherited survival."

"Everything had changed. Nothing could be reversed. And that was the hardest thing we had to learn." (Reference to 'The Change')

"What people had truly lost was not prosperity, but the ability to imagine a better future."

"At the end of the day, you wanted only one thing: for your guard shift to end. And that was all life had been reduced to."

"Love within the environment of the wall was a dangerous thing. Because the more you loved, the more you had to lose."

"The past is a foreign country we had no access to."

"If you have nowhere to go, you must endure where you are."

"We were all children of those who had made mistakes."

Written & researched by Dr. Shahin Siami