While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
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.
Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.
Everyone dies—the rearrangement of when is a matter of only statistical interest.
God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race.
It is the technique of the baboon to try to get its way by violence.