J. K. Rowling Quotes

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Anybody can kill anybody.

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.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.