Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

War tore my family apart.

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.

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

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

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

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Do not say that someone has won and someone has lost. These are unappropriate, blasphemous words. We have all been scorched by the deadly breath of fratricide.

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

Tomorrow the war will start, There will be widows. There will be orphans. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Wars are detested by mothers.

Every war is a national misfortune.

There are worse things than war.