War Death Quotes

12 quotes from 10 authors

When conflict turns lethal, the words left behind cut deeper than any battlefield. This modest set of twelve thoughts, voiced by ten different writers, captures the stark link between combat and mortality. If you’re drawn to this, you might also check out the pages on War, Death, and Courage for broader perspectives.

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War is death's feast.

George Herbert

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“War and death can silence the strongest of men.”

Jean E. Pendziwol

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“They say that war is death’s best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To…

Markus Zusak

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There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

John Cory

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“In every battle, there is a death. The loser may laugh it off if the war is short and sweet and without…

Yasmine Galenorn

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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and…

Aaron Huey

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Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To…

Roger Rosenblatt

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“The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the…

Hermann Hesse

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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To…

Markus Zusak

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“I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as…

William Saroyan

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“Death's Diary: 1942 - It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the…

Markus Zusak

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“In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one another decently, without shame or make-believe, under the…

Thomas Pynchon

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