Stefan Zweig Quotes

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

There are worse things than war.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

I was born and raised in war.

I was six when the war started. It was terrible. My house was destroyed, so we went to live with my grandparents. The whole family was there, maybe 15 people all staying in an apartment about 35m square. It was very hard.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

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.

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

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

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

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.