Pamela Hansford Johnson Quotes

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

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

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

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

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

War is too strange to process alone.

War dehumanizes everyone.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Every war has its demons.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

There are worse things than war.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

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

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.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.