" It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different.
Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans. "

― John Fowles , The Magus