10,941 Quotes About War

More or less everyone has lost someone, whatever side they belong to.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

The city gate opened when she and Harper reached the causeway. Her mind barely registered the new walls and the number of soldiers lining the ramparts who were cheering them. Oh, don’t, she wanted to tell them. We have lost so much.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and friends want is to talk about it. I call this the war veteran reintegration paradox.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.