Quotes About Honorable Death

#1. God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

Tad Williams

#2. Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Publilius Syrus

#3. Honor from death," I snap, "is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.

Rae Carson

#4. Sister, forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death. ISMENE

Sophocles

#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. Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#7. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Tacitus

#8. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

Bill Vaughan

#9. I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Julia Sweeney

#10. You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

Toni Morrison

#11. Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

David Gemmell

#12. Yet, if the hour of my death is nigh, I could ask for no more honorable companions by my side.

Jay Allan

#13. A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun.

Goliarda Sapienza

#14. I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most issues.

Robi Ludwig

#15. No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Citium Zeno

#16. The setting sun threatened to consume me - it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.

Chila Woychik

#17. The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Leonid Andreyev

#18. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle.

#19. Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

Utada Hikaru