Neither War nor Violent Death, Morgenes had written, have anything uplifting about them, yet they are the candle to which Humanity flies again and again, as complacently as the lowly moth. He who has been upon a battlefield, and who is not blinded by popular conceptions, will confirm that on this ground Mankind seems to have created a Hell on Earth out of sheer impatience, rather than waiting for that original to which—if the priests are correct—most of us will eventually be ushered.

Chapter 20, The Shadow of the Wheel (p. 302) - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - The Dragonbone Chair (1988)