Tad Williams - War Quotes

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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.

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If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I'm sorry if that inconveniences you.

Tad Williams

To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John's kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind... but isn't that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we're fighting now?

Tad Williams

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

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