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Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer

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

War is the certain proof that humans find death more attractive than life. — Stefan Boldisor

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Our knowledge of life is limited to death — Erich Maria Remarque

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

Death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack. — Erri De Luca

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

As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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

A house can be replaced but never a lost life. — Sarah Salem

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used. — Max Brooks

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

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire

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

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another. — Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord. — Nancy B. Brewer

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war. — Dee Hock

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs. — Jay Lake

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that. — Paul Allor

But by ending the war now, before it truly begins, the Death Star will save more lives than it took. — Claudia Gray

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

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

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. — Otto Von Bismarck

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

I want to create, not kill. — Susanne Dunlap

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

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. — Joss Whedon

War is death's feast. — George Herbert

Jordyn lowered her arms to her sides. "So. This is war?"
Baylon nodded. "This is war. — Donna Grant

In war, her father sometimes said, you might live, you might die. But if you panic, death is the only outcome. — Marie Rutkoski

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. — Carol Ann Duffy

Julie would have died there. — Elizabeth Wein

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

Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you — Walt Whitman

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. — Dan Brown

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

Idle war of head versus heart
It's always this way
My head is weak it always speaks
Before I know what it will say — Death Cab For Cutie

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. — Vasily Grossman

[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

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

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place? — David Hewson

Unlike in simulations, reality bled — Alan Dean Foster

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years. — Markus Zusak

Thanks," Johann finally said. "It's the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on. — Lee Strauss

They gave death with impunity as they followed a war-maddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood. — Bernard Cornwell

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. — Alain Badiou

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible. — Vladislav Tamarov

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

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

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras

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

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told! — K.A. Gunn

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

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

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. — Cesare Beccaria

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

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

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. — Leonid Andreyev

Wage war on death. Live for love. — Ted Dekker

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY! — Widad Akreyi

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer

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

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

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. — Mitch Rowland

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death. — Janet Morris

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — Angelina Grimke

The field of doom bears death as its harvest. — Aeschylus

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war! — Tibullus

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait. — Primo Levi

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

That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved. — Madeline Miller

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

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

The strangest sight was the old giant Thoon, who was getting bludgeoned to death by three old ladies with brass clubs - the Fates, armed for war. — Rick Riordan

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death. — Heinrich Heine

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

The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation. — Rosemarie Yusen

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

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

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

Only the dead has seen th end of war — Mirza Tabish

If death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned. — Enid Bagnold

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. — Joseph Bruchac

I am War. I am Death. I am the Unloved God. — T.S. Pettibone

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others. — Alex Scarrow

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya. — Ron A Swan

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. — Al Capone

It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away. — Erri De Luca

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

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry

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