"Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter— a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every side. So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter. Slash to the right, you sword, then to the left, wherever your blade is turned. I too will strike my hands together, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken.”
-Ezekiel 21:14-17
"Munit Haec et Altera Vincit." One defends and the other conquers, the Latin motto for Nova Scotia (Gaelic: Alba Nuadh).
"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled; for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity." -Maximus Decimus Meridius, Gladiator.
"Anger is my meat; I sup upon myself and so shall starve with feeding." -Volumnia, Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.
“Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?” -Shōgun by James Clavell, my favourite author of all time.
"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing." -Patrick Bateman, American Psycho.
“The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.” -Jaqen H'ghar, A Song of Fire and Ice: A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.” -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.