10,941 Quotes About War

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.

What is life but an ongoing war?

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

Pan knew about the war. He spent a lifetime outside under the stars, in trenches or bunkers when the only sounds at night that will bring you any comfrot are the songs of the crickets."......"When crickets are singing, their music drowns out all the other noises in the night sky, You can have faith that the enemy isn't moving because they'll warn you," Trey replies. "It's when the crickets stop singing that you know the enemy is near and the battle is about to begin.

Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy

One couple (they were college graduates) held long adult conversations with me in the big kitchen downstairs, until the husband went off to war. Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.

The incident plaguing him on this very night, did not have any relation to the jungles, the killing fields, the faces of villagers and the Vietcong, nor the hours of trekking through the mud, to destinations never revealed over the radios.