Alfred M. Gray Jr. Quotes

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

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

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

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

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

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

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

Men do things for other men in war that they would never do in peace.

To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

There are worse things than war.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.