Jon Krakauer Quotes

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

War is hell.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

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 sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

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.

There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

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

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

War is a profane thing.