Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Wars break things; they break stories.

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

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

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

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

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.

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.