James McCloughan Quotes

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

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

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

War is about dead people.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Blood and death. That moves me.

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

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

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.

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.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.