Quotes About War

And then I would think about the war and about the fact that those who waged it were also children once.

He knew that a civil war is never just one fight, but a tangle of large or small fights bound to one another.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

There would be time enough later on to hide the dead and invent stories. Now was the moment to pull out the knives and pay homage to cruelty. Wars soil everything, but they clean the memory.

El espectro de asesinatos, luchas y conspiraciones llevaba años corroyendo el alma de la ciudad, pero aun así, muchos querían creer que la guerra seguía lejos, que era un temporal que pasaría de largo.

Toda a arte é agressiva, Isabella. E toda a vida de artista é uma pequena ou uma grande guerra, a começar pelo próprio e pelas suas limitações. Para chegar a alguma coisa que te proponhas é preciso primeiro a ambição e depois o talento, o conhecimento e, por fim, a oportunidade.

Armee, Ehe, Kirche und Bankwesen: die vier apokalyptischen Reiter.

According to an uncle of his who had lost an arm and an eye in the war, one can only be a hero when one is genuinely afraid. Someone who faces danger fearlessly is just an idiot.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel. Le guerre negano la memoria, dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome ed un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war

Una guerra civil nunca es una, sino un amasijo de pequeñas o grandes luchas enquistadas entre sí.

Le guerre negano la memoria dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome e un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

This phenomenon, which biology shows us is common to any social group, soon transforms the doctrine into a means of achieving control and political power. Divisions, wars and break-ups become inevitable. Sooner or later, the word becomes flesh and the flesh bleeds.

Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en tu estación. Mientras tanto, las cicatrices de la guerra se cerraban a la fuerza.

Nadie sobrevive una guerra civil con un ápice de dignidad del que presumir. Mi

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.

Esercito, matrimonio, Chiesa e banca: i quattro cavalieri dell'apocalisse.

I had begun to understand that my father was ashamed that others might think him ignorant, a residue from a war which, like all wars, was fought in the name of God and country to make a few men who were already far too powerful when they started it even more powerful.

We all remain silent and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a nightmare that will pass. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what really happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour everything they left behind.

Ha oído decir alguna vez aquello tan socorrido de que en el amor y en la guerra está todo permitido, Daniel? -Alvina fez. Normalmente en vocal de Los que están más pot la guerra que poor el amor. -Así es, porque en el fondo es mentira podrida.

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

Las estadísticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

En la guerra hizo fortuna y en el amor lo perdió todo. Estaba escrito que no había nacido para ser feliz y que nunca podría llegar a saborear el fruto que aquella primavera tardía había llevado a su corazón.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.