Status Updates From The Reign of Osiris (Ramses...

“There is no weakness in grief. There is no weakness in love. No one can rule without them.”

“I don’t wish to end it all. I merely wish to know there will be an end. I see how much of a comfort that is for mortals now, even if they don’t realize it. To know that their pain will not go on forever.”

“Grief can blind us just as love does.”

“We are all born without consent. Should it really be thoroughly shattering to be reborn in the same way?”

“When it comes to death, I fear I shall be met by nothing, but I hope I will be embraced by everything. Am I so different than most men?”

“all those who have lost someone dear should smell this terrible stench if only for an instant, for it would speed their grieving along its painful course. For it said without equivocation that your loved one had departed, had been replaced by the terrible assault upon the senses that was deeply and profoundly not them. A smell that did not bear any connection to that they’d given off in life.”

“And this struggle itself, will make a sudden contrast with the blackness that preceded it, and he will realize he has known death, tasted death, luxuriated in death, but his mind will scramble to reject this revelation.”

“The ones we love become our burdens in death, and this is how we remain connected to them.”

“All wars begin in chaos and delusion.”

“No war in history has ever been launched by one who can predict its end, for if they knew its end, they would never begin.”

“If I have to die someday to truly savor every drop of her in this glorious present, then I shall never consume one drop of this precious elixir.”

“I don’t want my passion for Cleopatra to be dimmed in the slightest by the knowledge that we would be together for all time. It will lessen the intensity and the beauty of all that I feel for her now.”

“I have lived eight thousand years, an no god or angel has come to call upon me. I fear plague and famine and the misery they will bring to the mortals around me, not pantheons of lies that change names and discard dogma every few centuries in some desperate attempt to explain a mystery that expands ever outwards beyond its grasp.”