Quotes About Responsibility

And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."Death sighed. No, he said... there's just me.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"-Dr. Honma

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.