Battle Quotes

Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close.

~ Robert Ferrigno

Every battle is won before it is fought.

~ Sun Tzu

The man who shouts wins battles, the quiet man wins the war.

~ Robert Ferrigno

Never speak of defeat before battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost.

~ Sandeep Sharma

We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!

~ Deyth Banger

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror.Because the enemy feels the same.And you have come to kill him. You are the beast from his nightmares.

~ Bernard Cornwell

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

~ Sten Nadolny

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

~ James S.a. Corey

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

~ Dan Groat

Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.

~ James S.a. Corey

It took Caine a few beats to get it. “No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no.”“You’re happy here counting fish and nagging kids to work?” Edilio asked.“He’s not,” Virtue said, beating Toto to the punch and earning an annoyed glance from Caine.“He’s only done it for two days since the battle, and he’s already bored.

~ Michael Grant

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

~ Robert Jordan

That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world slows. You see the attacker, you see him shouting, though you hear nothing, and you know what he will do, and all his movements are so slow and yours are so quick, and in that moment you can do no wrong and you will live forever and your name will be blazoned across the heavens in a glory of white fire because you are the god of battle.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

~ David Eagleman

The more you say goodbye, the stupider you’ll feel when we’re blitzed as bats at the victory party.

~ Meg Merriet

Fearghus watched his mate a moment longer. It had been five years since he last saw her. Five years since he last touched her, kissed her, fucked her, saw her smile, told her to calm down, yanked a weapon from her hands before she hurt someone, or stopped her from getting in a pit brawl with her own daughter. It had been too long since he’d done all that and it was a bit overwhelming to be here now, so close to her after all this time.Annwyl slammed her spear into another Sovereign, then leaned against it, wiping her brow with the back of her hand and looking out over all the bodies she and her troops had left behind.She looked rather proud.

~ G.a. Aiken

You cannot possess your Promised Land without a battle.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go into the reach of those blades, into the place of death, and it takes time to summon the courage, to heat the blood, to let the madness overtake caution.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Stop battling with yourself. Be kind to yourself.

~ Anuranjita Kumar

If they saw men swarming up the wall, if they saw the axes chopping at our shields on the wall’s top, then they would join the battle. Men want to be on the winning side.

~ Bernard Cornwell

She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle...

~ Ayn Rand

Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

~ Eugene B. Sledge

Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

~ Mark Lawrence

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

~ Auliq Ice

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ever known. But this brilliant and intense fear, this terrible here and now, combined with the crucial significance of every movement of his body, pushed him over a barrier whose existence he had not known about until this moment. He gave himself over completely to the god of war within him.

~ Karl Marlantes

Only a fool goes to war in winter.

~ Jayne Castel

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.

~ Colleen Hoover

In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea or a flag for which we fight. Rather we fight for the man on our right or left. When the years fall away, all that remains are the memories of those precious moments we spent side by side.

~ Michael Schiffer Hossein Amini

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

~ Babe Ruth

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

~ Horatio Nelson

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

~ Marquis De Acerba

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.

~ Jared Brock

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Victory is a thing of the will.

~ Marshal Foch