Patrick Ness Quotes

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

Every war has its demons.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

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

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

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

War is hell.

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 makes monsters out of men.

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.

We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

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.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

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

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

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

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

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