#in

...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

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

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#death

Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humor #death

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#poetry #death

Be calm. God awaits you at the door. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#death-and-dying #serenity #death

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#family #fighting #death

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#war #death

Merlin’s beard. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#merlin #death

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death-penalty #gandalf #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #death