10,941 Quotes About War

When you’re in the boonies and fighting for your own life, you can’t stop and have a good cry because the best friend in your life just checked out of the war and left nothing but emptiness in his place.

The only thing worse than fighting in a war, is fighting in a war within a war.

The side of the base, that only hours before had been the site of a company of artillery pieces, is now gone. All of the men, the machines and even the very earth they stood on – are gone.

The war draws you into it and changes you forever. That’s what war does best.

The reason for the shaved heads and plain olive drab uniforms when you are recruited into the military is to immediately begin training “you”, the individual, to think as “us” the team.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. Few know how to remain silent and respect the silence of others.

Les habitants, dans leurs chambres assombries, avaient l'affolement que donnent les cataclysmes, les grands bouleversements meurtriers de la terre, contre lesquels toute sagesse et toute force sont inutiles.

Don’t start a fight you cannot win, but when the fight comes to you then don’t spare your breath, fight with whatever you have even if the results are presumed.

What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought.