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Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall. ↗

— David Gemmell

#risk #death

But how could he admire Joyce’s lengthy, libidinal ‘yes’ so fervently and end up saying ‘no’ to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#death

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade - ↗

— Robert Harris

#robert-harris #death

Clint’s body count was now up to five—six including the vegetable. Killing was becoming a habit, and Clint realized that it was starting to bother him less each time. He feared that he was becoming desensitized to death, too accustomed to killing. ↗

— William T. Prince

#prince #sasquatch #william #death

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too ↗

— Don Piper

#death

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#optimism #pessimism #wonder #inspirational

Ideas come from everything ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#inspiration #inspirational

However he said before I came: To him who brought you up relate How you have broken honor's ties, And say,- his prompt response I wait!' 'Distressed am I to bear your words; And humbled low I am by fate. For honor's sake I must revenge The wrong done Batu and his mate.' Then slowly on one upraised knee He placed with care his loaded gun; Ten aimed at Sapar-beg whom he Had reared, and loved more than a son 'O Sapar-beg,' he gravely said, 'Unworthy even for death are you. 'Tis I who am unfit to live For bringing up a man like you' A sudden flash… a bursting shot… A bullet pierce through temples gray… And on the ground in wreaths of smoke Haji-Iusub lifeless lay. ↗

— akaki tsereteli

#death

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? ↗

— Jake Jesser

#crucifixion #death #mythology #perspective #religion

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immoral souls-that looked dumber than that mouse. ↗

— Stephen King

#death