Horace Quotes

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Wars break things; they break stories.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

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

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

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

War tore my family apart.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Tomorrow the war will start, There will be widows. There will be orphans. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.

Every war is a national misfortune.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

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.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

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

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

A hospital alone shows what war is.