Heaven Quote by Tad Williams

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men…It blew ideas away.

— Sherwood Anderson

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could…

— Osamu Dazai

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically…

— Paullina Simons

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

— Julie Andrews

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than…

— Wilfred Owen

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world…

— Robert Graves

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new…

— Norman Mailer

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in…

— Haruki Murakami

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves…

— Jack London

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The…

— Virginia Postrel

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew…

— George Grosz