Wilfred Owen Quotes

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

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

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.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my heart.