Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away; we must never let them take it from us.

Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.

May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into his hand.

We catch only glimpses of life. Death is the one thing we really have time to see. A day is coming when I shall be no more. I am crying because I shall surely die.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

I can bear to die - I cannot bear to leave her.

I will die, but I will not let you in.

"Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can't live one's last hour all one's life!"

If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere.

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.