Life Quote by Gordon R. Dickson

“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was…

— Cormac McCarthy

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

— Pindar

“Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come…

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He…

— Kathleen Koen

“He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly, and he…

— Hermann Hesse

“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Every man must ceaselessly struggle upwards. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?”

— Malcolm Lowry

“We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.”

— Kevin Powers

“A man who conquers himself no longer has the need to conquer those around him.”

— VD

“He reflected that, from a distance, the world might conceivably look to be at peace, a state of affairs that always ends in war,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Life moved in circles. Such was the path. What came would come again, breath to breath, until each riddled out the truth within. War…

— Chris Galford