Possible "pull quotes" for upcoming Superiors books

[Methariel]

Saminga
"O Death! How bitter is the thought of you! How quick your coming! How secret your path! How uncertain your hour! How all-embracing your reign!"
-- Louis of Granada (1505-1588)

"There are dead you have to kill."
-- Jules Pierre F. S. Desnoyers (1800-1887)

"Lovely he looks with his extinguished torch; but, dear gentlemen, Death is not aesthetical."
-- J. C. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

(And yes, I had to translate two translated dicta, so I hope I didn't distort them too much. And I'm also aware that dicta nos. 1 and 3 are far too sophisticated for Saminga... And maybe no. 2, too. ;) )

Kronos
"Fate's malicious and eternal law is that all things must, when they've reached their acme, plummet down more quickly into the depth than they rose."
-- L. Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4-65)

[Rocket Man]

Beautiful, Methariel!

Janus
"But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty. " -- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

[tHEhERETIC]

Originally Posted by Methariel

Saminga

"Lovely he looks with his extinguished torch; but, dear gentlemen, Death is not aesthetical."
-- J. C. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

(And yes, I had to translate two translated dicta, so I hope I didn't distort them too much. And I'm also aware that dicta nos. 1 and 3 are far too sophisticated for Saminga... And maybe no. 2, too. ;) )

I don't think #3 is too sophisticated--I think it's someone else describing him very well. Though I'm curious about the translation--"aesthetical" is an uncommon word in English, and the symmetry of the quote suggests something closer to "beautiful". What's the original word in German? Which work of his? I can't read German but I can access Project Gutenberg as well as anyone.

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by tHEhERETIC

I don't think #3 is too sophisticated--I think it's someone else describing him very well. Though I'm curious about the translation--"aesthetical" is an uncommon word in English, and the symmetry of the quote suggests something closer to "beautiful". What's the original word in German? Which work of his? I can't read German but I can access Project Gutenberg as well as anyone.

It's from "The Genius With The Inverted Torch." A different source translates it pretty similarly, save that he ends with "Death is not aesthetic."

Christopher
"Give us the child until the age of seven and we will answer for the man." -- Society of Jesus

[robkelk]

Jean

"You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right."
- Randall Munroe, http://xkcd.com/701/, 12 February 2010

(It's the ALT text on today's webcomic.)

[Rocket Man]

Baal
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Saminga
"I've seen the future, brother; it is murder.
--Leonard Cohen

Kronos
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in its petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."
-- William Shakespere, Macbeth

Janus
"I tell you: one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star."
-- Friedrich Nietzche

"Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself."
--Sallust

Furfur
"Then I took out my razor blade/ then I did what God forbade/ now the cops are after me, but I proved that I'm no sissy."
--The Ramones, 53rd & 3rd

"Fat cat came to play, now he can't run fast enough./ You'd best stay away when the pushers come to shove ..."
--Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Zoot Suit Riot

" A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic." -- George Orwell, 1984

[Rocket Man]

Saminga
"I see dead people."
--Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense

Francisco Scaramanga: "You get as much pleasure out of killing as I do, so why don't you admit it?"
James Bond: "I admit killing you would be a pleasure."
--The Man With The Golden Gun

Jean
"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent."
--Paul Simon

[Rocket Man]

Kronos
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." -- Woody Allen

[Rocket Man]

Furfur
"Well, he looked at me once, looked at me twice. Look at me again and there's gonna be a fight ..."
--The Stray Cats, "Rock This Town"

[Rocket Man]

Malphas
"So what is this sinister secret,
The lie he will tell you is true?
It's that each man you meet on the street
Isn't one man, but two!"
--"Facade" from the musical "Jekyll and Hyde."