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Quotes About Death

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?
~ Winston Churchill
Living in war is a co- existence with death.
~ Zainab Salbi
War is young men dying and old men talking
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.
~ Joseph Stalin
The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.
~ Paul Allor, TET
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Peace is a road to happiness and the future.War is a road to destruction and death.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.
~ Pat Frank, Hold Back The Night
The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
~ Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
~ Wilfred Owen, The War Poems
The Military don't die. They go to heaven to join god's army and prepare for armageddon.
~ Zander Stephens
Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.
~ Glen Cook, The Black Company
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.
~ Kelley York, Made of Stars
Wouldn't it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?" Ildiko mused after a moment. "I'll sleep long and hard when I'm dead. You defy death by celebrating life.
~ Grace Draven, Eidolon
My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death
~ the silence of the debris
[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
~ Sir Laurens van der Post
We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.
~ Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life's craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation
~ Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue