Rick Yancey Quotes

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

One makes mistakes in every war.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Bloody Ground

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.