Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

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

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

Every war will astonish you.

There's never any guarantee at war.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

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 makes early risers of us all.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The brazen throat of war.

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.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

War is the father and king of all.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

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

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

No study is possible on the battlefield.