„Every man had to die. He’d always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they’d had the most practice not dying.“
Quelle: Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson3
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1975Ähnliche Zitate
— Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead
Quelle: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 2 (pp. 58-59)
„Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.“
— Rick Riordan, Das Zeichen der Athene
Quelle: The Mark of Athena
„It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.“
— Mitch Albom American author 1958
Variante: It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
Quelle: The Time Keeper
— Jack McDevitt American novelist, Short story writer 1935
Quelle: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Deepsix (2001), Chapter 4 (p. 72)
— Winston S. Churchill, buch The Second World War
The Second World War, Volume II : Their Finest Hour (1949) Chapter 8 (September Tensions).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
— Mark Clifton, buch They'd Rather Be Right
Quelle: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 19.
— Paul Bowles, buch The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky (1949)
— Plutarch ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46 - 127
Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Richard Evelyn Byrd Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer 1888 - 1957
Quelle: Alone (1938), Ch. 1
Kontext: What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.
„The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.“
— Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
Quelle: The Bell at Sealey Head
