Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Country, Children

• The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Depressing, Spring, People

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.150, A&C Black

• The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Offering, Flames, Color

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