Suzanne Collins Quotes

Never fight someone who is more willing to die than you are.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

No damn man kills me and lives.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

I don't intend to die.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.