Casualties Of War Quotes

“This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies. War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor

“In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior”
― Mili Fay, Warriors of Virtue Epic YA Fantasy Series Episode 1: Text Edition

“I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they’d taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there’s no time to think about who’s there. But for an Afghan, it didn’t matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.”
― Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

“Sitting out on the canoe tonight, watching the indigo waters of the South China Sea, I noticed the waxing moon calculating that maybe by the time it is full we’ll be back in the U.S. of A. I shed a few tears for Michael again. I was hoping his ghost would materialize just to let me know there actually is a spiritual realm but no such luck. It was just me, alone. It’s so bizarre. He was here and now… he’s gone. That’s the way it is. We are… and then, we are no more. Two or three loved ones keep our memory alive… and then, they are no more. And we all fade into that massive vapor cloud of forgotten souls. Why were we even here in the first place?
I began to stand up. That’s when I saw it. It entered the night sky from the west and streaked to the east, forming a brilliant but thin arc of flame. A shooting star. A meteorite. Was that my confirmation? I would like to think so.”
― Gerald Maclennon, God, Bombs & Viet Nam: Based on the Diary of a 20-Year-Old Navy Enlisted Man in the Vietnam Air War - 1967

“I stared at the bodies of the young men whose lives I took. I wondered what they were like and if they had partners waiting at home for them. Maybe if we grew up on the same side of Suhai we could have been friends.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were no longer shockable. I shut my eyes; I had already seen far too much and I wanted to be able to forget eventually. This thing, this being, screamed in a corner like a maniac. The revulsion that turned our stomachs told us that it would be an act of generosity, a fraternal act, to finish him off.”
― Gabriel Chevallier, Fear

“It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties.”
― Mili Fay, Warriors of Virtue Epic YA Fantasy Series Episode 1: Text Edition