Quotes About Conflict

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

I've never bashed a union in my life.

We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.