Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Wars are detested by mothers.

Every war is a national misfortune.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

In every war, innocent people die.

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

There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

War tore my family apart.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.