10,941 Quotes About War

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

You do not love me; you love my success!

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

E che cosa ce ne faremo della ricchezza? La posso mangiare? Dormirò meglio quando sarò ricco? Non andrò forse più in fabbrica, e che cosa farò tutto il giorno? No, Borkhausen, io non voglio diventare ricco e in questo modo, poi, certamente no. Una simile ricchezza non vale neanche un morto.

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

Shadow could not understand about the war games that humans played. When they roughhoused, they killed each other. Why can’t they just roughhouse like dogs, and when they are through, walk away?

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.