Afraid-to-die Quote by Paul Hoffman

“The most glorious battles in history are those with the biggest number of dead. As if we pay tribute to death and not to…

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“A final stand, then. One last battle. At least he could say that he had fought. When he met his brothers and sisters on…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty,…

— George R.R. Martin

“We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened…

— Patricia Briggs

“We are not meant to come through our battles as merely survivors. We are meant to come off the battlefield as victors, and to…

— Kristen M. Smeltzer

“This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.”

— Williams Robin Professor Keating

“In every battle, there is a death. The loser may laugh it off if the war is short and sweet and without cost. Or…

— Yasmine Galenorn

“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist.”

— Louis L'Amour

“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”

— Dana Kramer-Rolls

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“If the worst came, they would do their sad duty and fight the last battle above the dead bodies of their friends.”

— Konstantina P