“Oswald Cabal: There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

“Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”

“I do not want to suffer, I do not have a christian concept of suffering. They tell us that suffering elevates the spirit; no suffering is something that hurts and that's all, it elevates nothing. And therefore I fear suffering. Because with regards to death, I, who in everything believe to be moderate, am absolutely radical. If we have a right to life, we have also a right to death. It rests on us, and it must be regognized the right to choose the when and the how of our own death.”

“Oswald Cabal: Little animals. And if we’re no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live, and suffer, and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. It is this, or that. All the universe or nothing. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?”

“Sensitivity to the death and suffering of boys and men is in competition with our survival instinct.”

“Encounters with death and danger are onlyto the survivors.”

“Sometimes you have to do something dangerous to get death's attention.”

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”

“See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.”

“Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.”