1,797 Quotes About Battle

It was then that he gained the nickname adulescentulus carnifex: 'kid butcher' rather than enfant terrible.

It is no longer a matter of if there is a war; it is a matter of who will strike next.

It's a new battle, no matter If I won or lost the last one, this is a new battle & the only thing to take forward is the lesson from the last one, if I won – why & how I won, & if I lost – why & how I lost. I will enter this battle wearing my confidence, carrying a sword (which will be my efforts) & a shield (which will be the lessons learned from previous battles). Now defeat me if you can…

Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.

Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not until you’ve seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sliced open, and known that they weren’t ever getting back together again, and vomited your last two meals over the rocks . . . it’s not until then that you understand the business of swords properly and, if you’re a sensible man you vow to have nothing to do with it ever again.

The thing about being everyone's source of strenght: sometimes you forget that you need to draw strenght from others.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

I am the wind...I am death.

Battle is gruesome, but it is vigorous, alive. The aftermath is the worst of it: adrenaline fades, quiet sweeps in, and there’s nothing to distract you from the mess of bodies and disturbed earth.