Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

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.

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

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

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

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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.

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

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

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

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.