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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #personal-responsibility #responsibility #song-of-ice-and-fire #death

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#luna-lovegood #ravenclaw #death

Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humor #ron-weasley #death

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #will-herondale #death

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#men #relationships #sex #women #death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#dying #jim-elliot #truth #death

If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats? ↗

— H.R.H. Prince Philip

#death

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#death