10,941 Quotes About War

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

Love, they compare you to an unending battle-riddled with pain and wracked with tacticsTo pull the other down into a deathly embracein which there is no loser:For I am beginning to believe that my lossIs truly his, and his win is my gain.

Świat przypatruje się wielkiemu widowisku walki i śmierci, które zresztą trudno mu sobie wyobrazić, bo obraz wojny jest nieprzekazywalny. Ani piórem, ani głosem, ani kamerą. Wojna jest rzeczywistością tylko dla tych, którzy tkwią w jej zakrwawionym, wstrętnym, brudnym wnętrzu. Dla innych jest stronicą książki, obrazem na ekranie, niczym więcej.

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.

It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years

Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")

They say human is a thinking animal; in times of war, don’t even use the adjective ‘thinking’!

Every warrior walks, lives and sleeps with an armed mind"RjS

He who fights with his hands exerts himself and tires he who fights with his mind wins"RjS