Quotes About Suffering

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?

War is not nice.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.