“He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Treason (1988)
“Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 <br class="br">Source: 1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
“God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“They survive. Ah yes, survive. And achieve nothing to deserve it.”
Paul J. McAuley (1955) British writer
“The only meaning of life, if it can be said to have meaning, is to survive. My brothers and sisters, herding their children on the plains, find meaning in the simple pattern of their lives and need nothing more. They are immersed in the processes of the world: all is one. That is their religion. They seek no other meaning.
“Your race, now, believes that expansion is all. You think to outrace your dark destiny, believe that the whole universe is yours when you understand so little of it.”
Chapter 4 “At the Core” (p. 271)
Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)
“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Source: A Writer's Diary
“I told Mr Ferguson that United didn't deserve to leave Stamford Bridge with nothing.”
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-314176/Mourinho-taunts-Fergies-failures.html <br class="br">2004
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 37 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
