honorable death Quotes

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

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination... Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.