Some people might kill it.” “It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” He continued to carry both twig and larva.

It's going to a lot harder to kill an animal that's able to speak its name.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle anyone faces in the effort to understand death is that it’s impossible for the unconscious mind to imagine an end to its own life.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

Consciousness is what makes the mind–body problem really intractable.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?

I’m told it’s very difficult to escape death once he adds your name to his list.

These creatures of mine seemed strange and uncanny to you so soon as you began to observe them; but to me, just after I make them, they seem to be indisputably human beings. It's afterwards, as I observe them, that the persuasion fades. First one animal trait, then another, creeps to the surface and stares out at me. But I will conquer yet! Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.