Rupert Friend Quotes

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I've been in many wars already.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.