10,941 Quotes About War
- Author William Stevenson
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The most tragic thing about he war was not that it made so many dead men, but that it destroyed the tragedy of death," wrote the American poet John Peale Bishop. "Not only did the young suffer in the war, but so did every abstraction that would have sustained and given dignity to their suffering.
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- Author Katherine Mansfield
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Miss Brill had often noticed there was something funny about nearly all of them. They were odd, silent, nearly all old,and from the way stared they looked as though they'd just come from dark little rooms of even, even cupboards!
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- Author S.G.D Singh
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And war is decided by the anguish of the brave. Now is when you decide. You and every Werewolf you know. You can fight for something...or you can die for nothing.
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- Author Yoon Ha Lee
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Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war.
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- Author Florian Armas
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The soldier fell as if he were asleep.In deadly silence, you see blood. Dark red as spilled wine, it spreads on the rocks. It spreads on a yellow flower. It spreads.
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- Author Jim Butcher
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I need a favor.”I snorted. “What favor? You do remember that technically, we’re at war, right? Wizards versus vampires? Ring any bells?”“If you like, you can pretend that I’m employing subversive tactics as part of a fiendishly elaborate ruse meant to manipulate you,” Thomas said.“Good,” I said. “Cause if I went through all the trouble of starting a war and you didn’t want to participate, it would hurt my feelings .
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- Author Maxence Fermine
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على هذة العوامة من الصمت التي هي البندقية ، و التي تغرق في البحر أكثر كل يوم ، ثمة الكثير من الارواح المسكونة بالموسيقى .الاولى كانت لجوان كارلسكب .الثانية لإراسموس.اما الثالثة فكانت روح الحرب . غير ان هذه الاخيرة ، لم يتكلم عنها الرجلان اطلاقاً
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- Author Sue Burke
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The war had begun long before we arrived because war was their way of life. It took its first victims among us before we understood what was happening, on an evening that seemed quiet.
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- Author Sue Burke
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We had said we expected hardship, no paradise, but we really wanted both. We thought we could come in peace and find a happy niche in another ecology. Instead we found a battlefield. The east vine turned us into servile mercenaries, nothing more than big, clever fippokats helping it win another battle. We had wanted to begin the world afresh, far from Earth and all its mistakes. That had not happened, but only I realised it, and I kept my disappointment to myself.
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