Don McCullin Quotes

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War is hell.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Every war has its demons.

War is never cheap or easy.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell