Albert Camus Quotes

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

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.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.