John Steinbeck Quotes

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

Men, today we die a little.

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.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Death laid its eggs in the wound

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

War is about dead people.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

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

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

History is littered with dead good men