Death Quote by Steven Erikson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.”

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.”

“You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.”

“And so we weep for the fallen. We weep for those yet to fall, and in war the screams are loud and harsh and in peace the wail is so drawn-out we tell ourselves we hear nothing.”

“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”

“Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.]”

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

“I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.”

“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .”

“Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!”

“And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.”

“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”