Existentialism Quote by Phil Klay Download Open image ““Bob, I quickly learned, had an existential view of the Iraq war.”” — Phil Klay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existentialism Iraq war War
“At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt’s” — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“I needed very much to continue to believe in the goodness of humanity, because war is terrifying. And terrified people make choices they’d never… — April White Copy Share Image
“There's been a war, he thought (picturing the charred corpses that day's newspaper had shown), but we're all supposed to just get on with… — Douglas Watson Copy Share Image
“He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.” — Alex London Copy Share Image
“War shows us who we are. It drags us to our deepest depths and reveals just what we would do to survive. Good and… — Nina Levine Copy Share Image
“What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.” — Chris Burkmenn Copy Share Image
“fighting an endless war and getting nowhere, surrounded by those who found simply being in the war enough to justify their existence. He” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“late for that,” said Major Zima. “Besides, if there’s one thing I’ve learned doing Civil Affairs in Iraq, it’s that it’s hard to come… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came back from… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“Chaplain Vega’s a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it’s about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“In 2008, around the time I got there, the 82nd Air- borne was building greenhouses near Tikrit. It was a brave new world, and… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before… — Gerald Corey Copy Share Image
