Dead Heroes Quotes

#1. souls of dead heroes to their glorious afterlife in the Halls of Avandoor, if you believe in that sort of thing.

Robert Kroese

#2. Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#3. As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.

Horatio Bottomley

#4. Better a live coward than a dead hero, I've always believed. Sure people will still sing about dead heroes from time to time, but aside from that they get little attention. Unless they manage to get a holiday named after them. Even then, it's not like they get to enjoy the day off.

Bill Allen

#5. He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

George Eliot

#6. Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

Stephen Ambrose

#7. Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

Raegan Butcher

#8. We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate ... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#9. May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.

Adolf Hitler

#10. Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them.

Cinda Williams Chima

#11. In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.

Victoria Aveyard

#12. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Aleksandr Voinov

#13. Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Rory Stewart

#14. See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Mickey Spillane

#15. Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand - they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

Dennis Lehane

#16. There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

Kevin Outlaw

#17. Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Hugh Howey

#18. No time like the immediate, for tomorrow we may be dead, serving life and God's people no longer. It's in now we must take action to become the heroes of the morn'.

E.J. Squires

#19. What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

Joe Abercrombie

#20. Heroes are dead.

Dan Sofer

#21. His brother, dead. His wife, dead. Family, friends, and heroes. All dead. You push me to seek revenge? he thought. Well, you shall have it!

Brandon Sanderson

#22. Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Elbert Hubbard

#23. The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

Graham Greene

#24. Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

Gregory David Roberts

#25. Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. So now I get the scepter? Jason asked.
Cupid laughed. Unfortunately, you could not wield it. Only a child of the Underworld can summon the dead legions. And only an officer of Rome can lead them.

Rick Riordan

#27. As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Ernst Toller

#28. Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#29. If we have, we are heroes and the kits are safe. If we are wrong, then we are as good as dead.

Erin Hunter

#30. Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.

Eric Bogosian

#31. They're so brave," she said.
"They're all dead."
"Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.

Orson Scott Card

#32. You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. All your heroes are dead! I killed them!

CM Punk

#34. Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Will Carleton

#35. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Bruce Coville

#36. There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...

Robert Mayer

#37. It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

Umar Hassan

#38. Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

#39. Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.

Kate Atkinson

#40. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.

Jerry Stahl

#41. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Veronica Roth

#42. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Chris Hayes