Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

“Ölümden korkuyordum. Ölümden o kadar korkuyordum ki belki de ölüyorsunuzdur diye, size bakamıyordum bile. Benim için ölmemenin, eğer bulabilirsem, bir... bir yolu olduğundan başka hiçbir şey düşünemiyordum. Fakat, sanki büyük bir yara varmış da kanıyormuş gibi, -sizinki gibi- hayat sürekli akıp gidiyordu. Fakat her şeyde bu vardı. Ve ben hiçbir şey, hiçbir şey yapmadım; sadece ölmenin korkusundan saklanmaya çalıştım.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.” How”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“Esta calamidad asolando las tierras. Las artes del hombre olvidadas. El cantor enmudecido. El ojo ciego. ¿Y entonces? Un falso rey reinando. Reinando para siempre. Y sobre los mismos súbditos para siempre. No más nacimientos; no más vidas nuevas. No más niños. Sólo lo que es mortal engendra vida, Arren. Sólo en la muerte hay renacimiento. El Equilibrio no es inmovilidad. Es un movimiento... un eterno devenir.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, La costa más lejana