Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Every loss of life is terrible.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

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

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Even one death is horrible.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.