James Blunt Quotes

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

There are worse things than war.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

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

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

Wars break things; they break stories.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

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

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.