War Hardship Quotes

To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

You had to be tough to survive being in the hospital during the Civil War.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Soldiers, you are naked, unfed; the government owes you much but has given you nothing. The patience and courage that you have shown among these rocks are admirable; but it brings you no glory—not a glimmer falls upon you. I will lead you into the most fertile plains in the world. Rich provinces, great cities will be in your power; there you will find honor, glory and riches.

War is never cheap or easy.

A young Russian came; poor fellow, he had a leg all swollen and purple and seemed anxious. They know that their German master have no pity on those who are sick and let them die…. 13 Russians died at a camp last week, some being taken away in wheelbarrows before they were quite dead…. To think that such awful things happen in our little island. These are dark days indeed for Jersey.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.

I can forgive the Israelis for occupying our town, but I can never forgive them for imposing a curfew and forcing me to live in the same house as my mother-in-law for 43 days. .

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.

I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don't think life could be any more miserable.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.