Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

My sons are ready to die. Your sons still want to live.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Men, today we die a little.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.