Anguish Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it…

— Wendell Berry

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50…

— Rand Paul

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not…

— Charles Bukowski

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly…

— Adam Hochschild

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

— Samuel Johnson

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our…

— Robert Greene

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not…

— Charles Bukowski

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we…

— Michael A. Ledeen

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

— John Dryden

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and I cannot…

— William Saroyan