“Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.”

“Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”

“If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“Who knows what death is? Maybe life is nothing more than a beam of light passing slowly over our changing faces”

“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”