Francesca Lia Block Quotes

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

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

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

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

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

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.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

The sparrow still falls.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

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.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

A hospital alone shows what war 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.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.