William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

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

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

War is hell.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

War is never cheap or easy.

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

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

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

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.