There are fates worse than death," he will tell you. "One fate worse than death is accidentally killing your own men. Another fate worse than death is going home alive when twenty-two others don't.

The mode of death is sadder than death itself.

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

This my personal death? — That my lungs be failing
To inhale the breath
Others are exhaling?

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

O pior da morte é que antes estavas e agora não estás.

What could be worse? Dying, and not being missed.

Every breath you take is a step towards death.

At the door of life, by the gate of breath,
There are worse things waiting for men than death.

One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

A life postponed too long might never be lived.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Is life a boon?
If so it must befall
That death when e're he call
Must call too soon.

Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.