Slain Quotes

I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again. (Aeschylus)
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. View quote
Thomas Paine
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. View quote
Nagarjuna
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways; I keep, and pass, and turn again. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insatiate archer could not one suffice Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. View quote
Edward Young
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! View quote
Marie de France
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. View quote
John Donne
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. View quote
W. H. Auden
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world. (Ramakrishna)
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. View quote
Tacitus
For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain. View quote
Edwin Muir
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. View quote
Thomas Malory
Through this man (Launcelot) and me (Guenever) hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. View quote
Thomas Malory
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. View quote
John Newton
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. (Yamamoto Tsunetomo)
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. View quote
William Wallace
b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. View quote
Karl Marx
Wonderful is the depth of Thy oracles, whose surface is before us, inviting the little ones; and yet wonderful is the depth, O my God, wonderful is the depth. It is awe to look into it; and awe of honour, and a tremor of love. The enemies thereof I hate vehemently. Oh, if Thou wouldest slay them with Thy two-edged sword, that they be not its enemies! For thus do I love, that they should be slain unto themselves that they may live unto Thee. View quote
Augustine of Hippo