Edith Cavell

I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.

— Edith Cavell

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

— Edith Cavell

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

— Edith Cavell

I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

— Edith Cavell

They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

— Edith Cavell