War-Related Stress Quotes

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.