P. D. James Quotes

I don't want to kill you.

We do. The question is, how do you?

The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.

Perhaps His experiment went spectacularly wrong, sir. Perhaps He's just baffled. Seeing the mess, not knowing how to put it right. Perhaps not wanting to put it right. Perhaps He only had enough power left for one final intervention. So He made it. Whoever He is, whatever He is, I hope he burns in His own Hell.

I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.

Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.

I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.

Darling, you can't promise that...but I like to hear you say it.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.

I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.