Quotes About Tension

War pacifies itself.

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars

It's possible to avoid a war. It's impossible to stop it.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Wars and rumours of wars.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]

You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there's no end in sight. I don't know what the fuck you're doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain't cutting it with me.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

A bad peace is even worse than war.