Death Quote by Jon Krakauer

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

— Martin McGuinness

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

— Elizabeth Samet

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

— Jesse Ventura

“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat…

— M.B. Dallocchio

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life.…

— Richard Flanagan

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces…

— Sherman Alexie

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the…

— John S. Mosby

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and…

— Samuel Ha-Nagid

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein