“When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.”

The Pirates of Penzance (1879)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Sunflower

“How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

“Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.”

Cammie McGovern

Source: Say What You Will

“The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it your duty to make children do what you want, whether they will or not, then it follows inexorably that you must make them afraid of what will happen to them if they don’t do what you want.”

John Holt book How Children Fail

How Children Fail (1964).

“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch,
Much less your fairest mind invade:
Were not our souls immortal made
Our equal loves can make them such.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher

"An Ode Upon a Question Moved Whether Love Should Continue for Ever", line 121

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you
Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

“Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death
“Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick
“What makes you think I don’t?” – Death”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.”

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