Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

If any man wishes to exchange his life for mine, there is nothing that can prevent it.

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

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

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

I am facing threats. But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die.

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

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.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.

No one can escape his destiny.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.