Walter Scott Quotes

There are no survivors in my fights.

War is death's feast.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is about dead people.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is hell.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War is the science of destruction.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

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.

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

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.