10,941 Quotes About War

If killing folk ever starts to right, you’ve a worse kind of problem. Guilt can sting, but you should be thankful for it.’‘Thankful?’‘Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt’s your big problem, girl...things can’t be that bad.

We are haltingly, tentatively breaking the shackles of the earth ... but our energies are directed far more toward war. Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. But what we do not consider we are unlikely to put right.

Six years of uninterrupted happiness had rolled away, since my brother's marriage. The sound of war had been heard, affording objects of comparison.

Yet you killed my men. You've killed thousands already.” “When you come to our countries, what do you do?” asked Fortuna

I am a force of nature, I don't have nationality. Does the Everest have nationality? Does the Amazon have nationality? Does the Grand Canyon have nationality? They all belong to the world. Likewise, no matter where I live, I belong to the world. And no matter where you live, you belong to the world. Every human belongs to the whole world, for that very universal belonging is what makes humanity human.

I wasn’t human. The princess with stars in her eyes and darkness in her heart was a big, bad wolf. Black as a starless sky.

There was darkness in my heart, and it spread like wildfire.

It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.

People will only fight so hard to try and old on to what they have, but they'll dig in and fight forever to protect who they are.