Quote by Donna Tartt

“Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who…

— Audie Murphy

“The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them.…

— R.W. Schmidt

“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From…

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day.…

— Kien Nguyen

“What of the hundreds of faceless men on the streets looking for work, trying to pick up the threads of family life, hoping that…

— Charles Todd

“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down,…

— George Orwell

“We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end,…

— Charles Todd

“Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz

“The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare…

— Richard Bachman