Marguerite Duras Quotes

War is death's feast.

Warre is deaths feast.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

War is about dead people.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

War is the science of destruction.

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

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

I have to send people out to get killed.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

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.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

History has been the history of warfare.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.