Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

War is never cheap or easy.

Tomorrow the war will start, There will be widows. There will be orphans. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

The war? I can't find it too terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

In every war, innocent people die.

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

The wounded wailing in the sun, The dead, the dust, the flies. The flies! Oh God, the flies That soiled the sacred dead, To see them swarm from dead men's eyes And share the soldiers' bread ., Nor think I now forget The filth and stench of war,.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.