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Quotes About Death

Nobody returned alive from the war.
~ Andrija Joni?
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.
~ Todd Stocker
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan
~ Tom Hanks
You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.
~ William E. Peterson
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.
~ Anthony Liccione
War is organized murder and nothing else
~ Harry Patch
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
~ Kenneth de Guzman
"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...
~ Enrich M. Remarque
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
~ Howard Zinn, Just War
In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.
~ Herodotus
God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.
~ Alfred Noyes
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
~ Phil Klay
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
~ Anne Sexton
Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
~ James M. Barrie
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
~ Ayn Rand
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.
~ Theodora
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
~ Julius Caesar
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
~ Socrates