Paullina Simons Quotes

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

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

War is death's feast.

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

When war begins, then hell openeth.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

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

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

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

War is hell.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

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

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

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

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

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

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.