Quotes About Death

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

Old men make wars that young men may die.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.