Haris Pasovic Quotes

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

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.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

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

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

War is about dead people.

I have to send people out to get killed.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

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

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

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

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.