#death

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#death #fanaticism #radicalism #war #death

I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind. ↗

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

#oral-tradition #stories #time #death

[Miracles] . . . seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made fine, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#death

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living. ↗

— Libba Bray

#life #living #death

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #business

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#death

Harry was bleeding. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beware #dead #death #let us #life

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#anointed #create #leadership #mastery #quotes