War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

10745 quotes

J
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
Judge Holden
J
"War is god and god is war and they have always been one and the same."
Judge Holden
B
"The war had taught her that innocence was something you lost, not gained."
Briony Tallis
G
"The war had only produced an inveterate habit of failure and a deathly weariness in his bones"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"He said that war was god's way of teaching geography."
Judge Holden
J
"War crimes and crimes against humanity."
Judge Holden
D
"The war had started, and words were scattered like blood across the page."
Death
C
"Wars are not won by artillery."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"War makes us understand that we are not immortal."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"Wars are made by something inside of men, something deep inside of them."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
B
"The war would make her a better writer."
Briony Tallis
D
"They burned books as if burning words could burn away the truth."
Death
C
"The only thing worse than a war is another war."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"The wars are history now; only the soldiers remain, like ghosts."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"Death has never been busier, and will be busier still."
Death
D
"The world was a book written in blood."
Death
W
"We are all monsters, but the real monstrosity is refusing to acknowledge that we are."
Werner
G
"The war had become a permanent state of being."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"War is god."
Judge Holden
W
"The war doesn't care about your innocence."
Werner
W
"War turns soldiers into ghosts before they die."
Werner
W
"Perhaps war is not men's business after all."
Werner
J
"War endures. By it all other trades are measured."
Judge Holden
J
"The judge spoke of the nature of war and of men's enterprises in war"
Judge Holden
C
"The fever of war is incurable and those who suffer it cannot rest while there is blood left to spill."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"The war would end in such a way that neither of us would know if we won or lost."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"Killing is what we do best."
Death
D
"Death has never been busier."
Death
J
"The world exists in a state of war"
Judge Holden
J
"Men are made for war"
Judge Holden