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War and death Quotes

11 quotes from 10 authors

War and death starkly remind us how fragile triumph can be, and the eleven brief verses on this page echo that harsh reality from different angles. Readers who feel the weight of conflict often turn to deeper collections on mortality, peace, and the human cost of battle for fuller insight.

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He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of Kings

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“War and death can silence the strongest of men.”

Jean E. Pendziwol

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War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the…

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“I am Elaine dughter of Barnard of Ascolat. Motherless. Sisterless. I sing these words to you now, because the point of light…

Lisa Ann Sandell

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These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper,…

Winifred Holtby

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These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to…

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“Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities.…

Winifred Holtby

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We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people…

Luis J. Rodriguez

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“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It…

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