Sympathetic Devil

“Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

“Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you were nothing.”
― Robert Silverberg, At Winter's End

“Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?”
― Frederick Pohl

“We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well,
But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.”
― Henry Lawson, When I Was King and Other Verses