The Sorrow Of War Quotes

#1. Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. What happens when two people of terrible pride fall for each other?
Terrible things.
Destruction, Chason, Pain. Sorrow.
War.

R.K. Lilley

#4. When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

Laozi

#5. Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

David M. Knight

#6. Sorrow has rushed over the world like the waters of the Deluge, and it will take time to recede. But already, there are small islands of - hope? Happiness? Something like them, at any rate.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#7. Sunlight streams out of the lucid mind.

Marty Rubin

#8. We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

Shigeru Yoshida

#9. It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow ... that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

#10. A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

Kahlil Gibran

#11. The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

Lao-Tzu

#12. By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit ... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

Charlie Sheen

#13. What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

Virgil

#14. For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

David Jones

#15. Every heart knows its own sorrow and the greatest casualty of war is to be forgotten,

Miguel Reece

#16. If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

Tito Colliander

#17. War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

Katherine L. Walker

#18. I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

Martin Luther

#19. PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

C.S. Harris

#21. What Elzy had learned in the war was this: Sometimes your life depended upon having to do an awful thing, and the only way to make it through was to just do it and feel the sorrow later. - 'Elzy Taylor and the Men from the City by Jesse Knifley

Frank Larnerd

#22. The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

William Dean Howells

#23. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare

#25. Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

Mick Jagger

#26. One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

Michael Moore

#27. War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it.
~Izuru Kira

Tite Kubo

#28. What sticks with me now is not so much the pain and terror and sorrow of the war, though I remember that well enough. What really sticks with me is the honor I had of defending my country, and of serving in the company of these men.

R.V. Burgin

#29. I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

Shinobu Ohtaka