Richard Engel Quotes

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

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

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is too strange to process alone.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.