Connie Willis Quotes

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.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

You come home when the war is won.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

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.

I'm glad I never went to war.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Surviving is the only glory in war.