Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

We have lived with violence far too long.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

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

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

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

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

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

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Every war has its demons.