Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

America’s last hero is dead.

I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

And my little sister died when she was 16.

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.