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.
You know death must overtake you but you make no preparation for it.
War is a terrible thing, and many people return with wounds invisible to the eye.
To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.
Death would be so much easier to dance with if it weren’t surrounded by the clutter of civilization.
“Creatures trained in warfare are what he calls ‘philosophically anti-life.’”
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.