Life Quote by Elizabeth Moon

“War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.”

— John H. Arnold

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long

For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole different context.

— Todd Wilcox

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”

— Amit Kalantri

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I…

— Haruki Murakami

“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know…

— Tiffany Madison

“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I’d say that the quantity of boredom, if boredom is measurable, is much greater today than it once was. Because the old occupations, at…

— Milan Kundera

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of…

— Christopher Hitchens

I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment…

— Edward Rutledge