Quotes About Death

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

War is nothing but organized murder.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

More die in flight than in battle.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.