# Quote — Harry Turtledove, American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

> “Death is never dignified.” O’Doull spoke with a doctor’s certainty. “Never. Dignity in death is something we invent afterwards to make the living feel better.”

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [American Empire: The Victorious Opposition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition.md)
- Page: 432
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#American_Empire:_The_Victorious_Opposition_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/death-is-never

## More from this book

> As happened too often in politics, never turned out not to be so very long after all.

p. 469 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/as-happened-too.md)

> Only two promotions really mattered: the one up from buck private and the one to general’s rank.

p. 466 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/only-two-promotions.md)

> Everyone marched everywhere at Fort Custer. Armstrong had begun to think Thou shalt march' was in the Bible somewhere right below Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain''—two commandments he was learning more about violating every day.

p. 460 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition/everyone-marched-everywhere.md)