Quotes About Suffering

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

War is at best barbarism.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.