Fallen Soldier Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old fallen soldier quotes, fallen soldier sayings, and fallen soldier proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


John Randolph Thompson

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

Georgia O'Keeffe

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Erich Maria Remarque

How red the rose that is the soldier's wound, The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood, The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.

Wallace Stevens



You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Rashid Khalidi

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

Rev. Aaron Kilbourn


James A. Garfield


Bernard Law Montgomery



Only the dead have seen the end of war.



Daniel Webster

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte


Harry S. Truman


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Elmer Davis

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.     

Swami Vivekananda


Joseph Campbell

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Edwin Arnold

The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree     

Thomas Campbell


Yi Sun-sin


Francis A. Walker

For love of country, they accepted death.

James A. Garfield


Dan Lipinski


Henry Fielding

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Siegfried Sassoon


Bob Feller


Bob Marley