Oliver Herford Quotes

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.

There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

War is about dead people.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.

The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death…. The young must be first at the front line - don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.

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

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.