War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

D
"Each person paid a different price."
Death
J
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed"
Judge Holden
J
"In every trade save war men have sought to perfect their instruments"
Judge Holden
W
"Fire consumes everything."
Werner
C
"Wars are always the same."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
J
"All war is one war."
Judge Holden
C
"Wars are made by politicians, not by soldiers"
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"War doesn't care about your dreams. It takes them away."
Death
G
"The wars came and went, leaving behind only ruins and memories of what was lost."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him."
Judge Holden
D
"The Nazi flags were everywhere."
Death
D
"Death had never been busier."
Death
D
"There was no time for sentiment."
Death
D
"In war, people die who are not meant to die."
Death
G
"Wars were not, as the mothers of the world were told, a consequence of an impulse toward the destruction of things"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"There is something godlike in the very bloodletting itself."
Judge Holden
G
"War teaches nothing except the multiplicity of its own futility."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
D
"The war made them strange."
Death
D
"Some colors are meant for suffering."
Death
J
"War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence."
Judge Holden
C
"Wars are not made of anything else but of defeated men."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
H
"The war didn't do anything."
Hans Hubermann
L
"He was a savage with blue eyes."
Liesel Meminger
D
"The sky was that color again. That strange, dark, violent color."
Death
J
"War is god."
Judge Holden
G
"The war had stripped away his youth."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"War leaves scars that never truly heal."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"The war had begun and Liesel had missed it."
Death
C
"Wars are not lost because of dead men. Wars are lost because of tired men."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
J
"He said that war was a thing which could not be known but only endured."
Judge Holden