Edith Cavell Quotes

British nurse (1865-1915)

Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse, humanitarian and spy. She is celebrated for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was court-martialled, found guilty of treason and executed.

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Birth Name: Edith Louisa Cavell

Alternative Names: Edith (Louisa) Cavell

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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.

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

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

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

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 towards anyone.

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