The phrase "sadness of war" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the feeling of sorrow and despair associated with war and its consequences. For example, "The sadness of war weighs heavily on the minds of all who experience it."
A beautiful, poetic writer who grasped the ultimate sadness of war – and how the dead come back and haunt you long after you leave the battlefield.
Probably because I was taught, incorrectly, that Bierce's story was a humanist tale about the sadness of war, it never occurred to me that the story might be, in some sense, tasteless.
With so little knowledge of what Eisenhower called the "lingering sadness of war" and the "certain agony of the battlefield," they have done as much as anyone to turn the hard work of national security into the crass business of politics and entertainment.
As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
These were safe and good and happy times after the trauma and sadness of the war.
She had effortlessly organised the freshest new store of original footage to be shown on television in years into a narrative that left you desolate at the utter sadness of the war.
When Udo says the Burned Man plays "as if overcome by the sadness of real war," he is merely expressing his own eerie innocence, also seen in his bland unawareness that the game's title might cause the wrong kind of frisson in some people — he is extremely surprised when someone asks him if he is a Nazi.
It is a story about the causes, sadness and futility of war.
Inspired by a German soldier's poem written during World War I and promptly forgotten, a flop when recorded by a German cabaret singer in the late 1930's, "Lili Marleen" nonetheless emerged as the embodiment of a timeless theme: the sadness of separation brought by war.
Both say that judo has helped them forget the horror of war and the sadness of leaving families and loved ones behind.
"I love this big government hospital, the same government that welcomed me here after the war and the sadness of Somalia," she said, beaming at Deborah Boehm, a nurse practitioner.
