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The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. — Caitlin Doughty

Nobody returned alive from the war. — Andrija Jonic

Here and there, a form stirred feebly, victim of war's sorcery, struggling against the enchantment of death. — Diana Gabaldon

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death. — D.H. Lawrence

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread. — Dalton Trumbo

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. — Joseph Heller

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things
law and war. — Philip James Bailey

Differences disappear when faced with death. — Shannon A. Thompson

The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls. — Victoria Aveyard

Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death. — Debasish Mridha

Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. — Natalya Vorobyova

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. — Elizabeth I

Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles. — Sarah J. Maas

Be resolved that honor is heavier than the mountains and death lighter than the feather. — Yasuo Kuwahara

My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one. — Bette Greene

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. — Kimberly Willis Holt

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. — Thomas Paine

Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred. — Yasuo Kuwahara

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country. — Dick Morris

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. — Nigel Calder

They were willing to send men and women to death to avoid being called losers. — Steve Sheinkin

Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell. — Alfred Tennyson

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death. — Geraldine Brooks

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. — Clement Attlee

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war. — Phil Klay

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. — Aaron Huey

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

We were all survivors - every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death's cold face. — Cat Winters

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death. — Simon Bolivar

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

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn't matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war. — Michael Anthony

War is organized murder and nothing else — Harry Patch

War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for. — Tamora Pierce

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

Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death. — Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. — Brigitte Bardot

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others. — Voltaire

Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it. — Pierce Brown

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind. — David R. Brower

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son. — Randy Travis

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. — Theodore Roosevelt

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it. — Margaret Atwood

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

He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed. — Donald G. Firesmith

The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom. — Ruta Sepetys

Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories. — Richard Finney

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything — Frida Kahlo

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death — Robert Asprin

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home. — Robert Ferrigno

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death. — Andrei Zhdanov

We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen ... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see. — Nadege Richards

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

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps. — Tibullus

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine. — Banksy

Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there. — Lemmy Kilmister

And where there are shadows, there is light, Liebchen. — J.W. Horton

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid. — Pat Frank

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. — Aleksandra Layland

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. — Pittacus Lore

War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. — David Gemmell

There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war. — Hannah Moskowitz

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here ... and die a resplendent death. — Torii Mototada

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. — Jon Krakauer

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. — Nadege Richards

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. — Margaret Mitchell

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. — William Apess

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. — Widad Akreyi

You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why. — Glen Cook

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. — John F. Kerry

Their names are Death, Disease, War, and Sparkle-Darkle Glitter-tits," Sophie said. "They're the four little ponies of the Apocalypse. — Christopher Moore

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death. — William Broyles Jr.

With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death. — Alan Kinross

Violence and war lead only to death ... — Pope Francis