Death Over Dishonor Quotes

#1. ... 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

#2. 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

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

David Henry Hwang

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Sheryl Lee

#13. 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

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

Euripides

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Mark Coker

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

Cat Zingano

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

Ursula Nordstrom

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

Walter Scott