War-torn Quotes

Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

Out of the trenches and back to their homes by Christmas.

Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.