1,797 Quotes About Battle

Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost.

Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.

. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.

— Ми програли війну. Цю війну ми програли. Нас не вистачило на чотири фронти...— Війну, може, й так, — сказала вона. Але не боротьбу. Боротьба не має кінця без осягнення мети.

Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go into the reach of those blades, into the place of death, and it takes time to summon the courage, to heat the blood, to let the madness overtake caution.

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.

Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant?