Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

A hospital alone shows what war is.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

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

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.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

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.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

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.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

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

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

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

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

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning