Enid Bagnold Quotes

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

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

A man can die but once.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

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.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

War is death's feast.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Dying's a boring side effect.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.