Country Quote by Iris Murdoch

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

— Pierre Corneille

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light…

— Charley Reese

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live…

— Esther Meynell

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

— Samuel Butler

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite…

— Cormac McCarthy

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth,…

— David Gemmell

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change…

— Ahmed Kathrada

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

— Boris Pasternak

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

— C. S. Lewis

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living,…

— Jackie Kay

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

— Imran Khan