->''"The war gave them definition, direction, purpose. Without it, they don't know how to fit in anymore. So they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero. Maybe so. I don't know. I've never been one. Me? I think they're looking for something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something worth living for."''
->-- '''Garibaldi''', ''[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon 5]] -- "Infection"''

->''"Once you've been to Serenity, you never leave. You just learn to live there."''
->-- '''Zoe Washburne''', Series/{{Firefly}}

->''"There's no place I can be/Since I found Serenity..."''
->-- '''[[ThematicThemeTune The Ballad of Serenity]]''', Series/{{Firefly}}

->''"The winter after the curse was lifted, hundreds of veteran orcs like me were lost to despair. Our minds were finally free, yes... Free to relive all of the unthinkable acts that we had performed under the Legion's influence. I think it was the sounds of the draenei children that unnerved most of them... You never forget... Have you ever been to Jaggedswine Farm? When the swine are of age for the slaughter... It's that sound. The sound of the swine being killed... It resonates the loudest. Those are hard times for us older veterans."''
->-- '''Varok Saurfang''', ''WorldOfWarcraft''

->''"—These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.\\
Memory fingers in their hair of murders,\\
Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.\\
Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,\\
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.\\
Always they must see these things and hear them,\\
Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles,\\
Carnage incomparable and human squander\\
Rucked too thick for these men's extrication."''
->-- '''Wilfred Owen''', "Mental Cases"

->''"Do they matter--[[FlashbackNightmare those dreams in the pit?]]\\
[[DrowningHisSorrows You can drink and forget and be glad,]]\\
And people won't say that you’re mad;\\
For they know that you've fought for your country,\\
And no one will worry a bit."''
->-- '''Creator/SiegfriedSassoon'''

->'''The Chief''': Is it possible that you were living out a war flashback, Sarge?
->'''Sarge''': Aye.
->'''The Chief''': Let's go ahead and say that's what happened.
->'''Sarge''': It would explain a lot.
->-- ''WebVideo/AgentsOfCracked''

->''And so I sit here at this [[DrowningMySorrows bar]]'' \\
''I'm not a hero, I'm not a movie star'' \\
''I've got my beer, I've got my stories to tell'' \\
''But they won't tell you what it's like in [[WarIsHell hell]]'' \\
''Red flowers bursting down below us'' \\
''Those people didn't even know us'' \\
''We didn't know if we would live or die,'' \\
''We didn't know if it was wrong or right'' \\
''We didn't know if we would live or die,'' \\
''I bombed Korea every night''
->-- '''Music/{{Cake}}''', "I Bombed Korea"

->''We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.''
->-- '''Paul Bäumer''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''

->''When does it stop--the ringing in your ears?''
->-- '''Annie Walker''', ''CovertAffairs''

-> ''The people I killed...they're not comin' back, Leo. What's left for ME!?''
->-- '''Maximilian''', ''AnarchyReigns''