Glorious Death Quotes

What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

We have to offer [young Moslems] a hopeful life to compete with a glorious death.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.