Death Quotes by Orson Scott Card

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

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“The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)”

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“Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.”

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Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

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Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

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“What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.”

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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before…

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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or…

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“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things…

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“He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen. "Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty…

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“I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one…

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We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might…

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“I’m on his death list, too.” “Then why are you still alive?” asked Peter. “Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not…

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Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them…

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“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives…

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“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to…

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We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in…

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“Still not dead,” she said. She had greeted him with these words each time she woke during the past few days. At…

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“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and…

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Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps…

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“Someday they will die, their children will die, all children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death…

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“They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.”

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“He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang…

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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

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“Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take…

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“In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music.”

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The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world…

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