“We are all equal before death.”

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“What’s dead stays dead.”

P.S. Somtow, Jasmine Nights

“… what death is all about? To be able to leave. To cease to care. To be free.”

Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe

“They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is that there’s anyone left alive!”

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“… all equal before sleep, death’s brother.”

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Life and death must be matters of indifference.”

Lucia St. Clair Robson, Tokaido

“My dear Colonel, one cannot use mere numbers to define danger.”

Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja

“After all, to a well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“The romantic personality is pervaded with a subtle mistrust of intellectualism, and this fact is often conductive to that immoral action called daydreaming. Contrary to belief, daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism…”

Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“In the morning counsels are best, and night changes many thoughts.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“If a man has to do something dangerous, it helps to be angry. It’s for his own protection, really.”

Michael Crichton, Congo

“Danger comes cloaked in many forms… But, he realized, ignorance brings its own kind of danger…”

Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja

“In any case, danger usually doesn’t come in the light of day.”

Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear

“… when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King