Carolyn See Quotes

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

Memories are worse than bullets.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.