Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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.
Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
Put off boasting, give up self-conceit and remember your grave.
The Mohammedans use the graves of their saints and martyrs almost in the place of images.
There's nothing certain in man's life but this:
That he must lose it.
Death
Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be filled.
Behind her Death
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse.
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
Death's but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God.
The great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God.