Joseph Campbell Quotes

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

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

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

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.