Death is the way to immortality. Love will begin when the world ends.
Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
The gods conceal from those destined to live how sweet it is to die, that they may continue living.
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.
This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity.
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.