Markus Zusak Quotes

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

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

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

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

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.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

War is never cheap or easy.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

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

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.