Death Quote by Sebastian Barry

“The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! . .…

— Ford Madox Ford

“News had reached his ears that they planned to distribute mixtures alongside Route One and Route Twenty-two to kill the vegetation there. Depriving ambushers…

— Denis Johnson

“During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two earlier, it…

— Adam Hochschild

“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed…

— Elizabeth Berg

“He knew it was necessary to drive the French out, but he had always imagined that this would be done gloriously, with thousands of…

— Paul Bowles

“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“The war had made him see that not everything was quite as black and white as he’d once thought. Most people were neither all…

— Hillary Adrienne Stern

“There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes…

— Captain Price

“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power which had…

— Vasily Grossman

“They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had…

— Vernor Vinge

“We have first seized the front line of trenches, then the second and the third, and our adversary, shut up in his retreat, in…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and a particular…

— Norman Mailer