--- title: "1 Read War Quotes By Guy Sajer" description: "1 Read War quotes by Guy Sajer. Plus more from Guy Sajer and more Read War sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/guy-sajer-31280_next-day_too-many-people-learn-about-war-with-no_3209018.jpg" --- > [“Too many people learn about war with no inconvenience to themselves. They read about Verdun or Stalingrad without comprehension, sitting in a comfortable armchair, with their feet beside the fire, preparing to go about their business the next day, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/too-many-people-learn-about-war-with-no-inconvenience-to-themselves/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/guy-sajer-31280_next-day_too-many-people-learn-about-war-with-no_3209018.jpg) ## More by Guy Sajer > [War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/war-always-reaches-the-depths-of-horror-because-of-idiots-who/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/i-have-used-the-words-and-expressions-which-my-experiences-from-minsk/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/it-is-a-mistake-to-use-intense-words-without-carefully-weighing-and/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/the-problems-i-had-existed-before-i-did-and-i-discovered-them/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/men-who-have-embraced-one-idea-can-live-only-by-and-for-that-idea/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/as-i-remember-his-laugh-there-was-nothing-mad-about-it-it-was-more/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/no-time-to-spare-the-expression-assumed-its-full-significance-as-so/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/abandoned-by-a-god-in-whom-many-of-us-believed-we-lay-prostrate-and/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/i-had-often-thought-that-if-i-managed-to-live-through-the-war-i/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/only-happy-people-have-nightmares-from-overeating-for-those-who-live/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/a-day-came-when-i-should-have-died-and-after-than-nothing-seemed-very/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/what-happened-next-i-retain-nothing-from-those-terrible-minutes/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/only-victors-have-stories-to-tell-we-the-vanquished-were-then-thought/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/then-there-was-the-war-and-i-married-it-because-there-was-nothing/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) > [“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-sajer/only-the-victors-have-stories-to-tell-we-the-vanquished-were-all/) [Guy Sajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-sajer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/read-war/guy-sajer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Read War Quotes By Guy Sajer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Too many people learn about war with no inconvenience to themselves. They read about Verdun or Stalingrad without comprehension, sitting in a comfortable armchair, with their feet beside the fire, preparing to go about their business the next day, as usual. 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