Death Over Dishonor Quotes

#1. Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

Sheryl Lee

#2. Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

Walter Scott

#3. The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

Ursula Nordstrom

#4. Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

Cat Zingano

#5. Think of platform building as building a fire. Each platform-building activity adds another twig or log to the fire.

Mark Coker

#6. Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. As for the deaths of the Valkyries - that was a sacrifice they willingly made. Do not dishonor them by feeling guilt. You cannot prevent every death,

Rick Riordan

#8. The kind of courage that is strengthened or created by concern about what others will think is really a form of fear. Fear of disapproval or dishonor becoming stronger than fear of injury or even death.

Michael Josephson

#9. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Euripides

#10. Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.

Steven Pressfield

#11. ... the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#13. Loving a warrior is hard. Dying in the line of duty is an honor to them. They would rather take that road than to dishonor their sacred oath

Ronie Kendig

#14. These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

Janet Morris

#15. Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

Bill Maher

#17. Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.

Orson Scott Card

#18. But you are not afraid." "There are so many worse things than death," he said. "Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse. And to go down fighting as a Shadowhunter should, there is no dishonor in that. An honorable death - I have always wanted that." A

Cassandra Clare

#19. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace

#20. Death with honor is better than life ... life with dishonor.

David Henry Hwang

#21. Samurai are born to die.
Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is.

Rick Remender