Twilight at the Well of Souls Quotes

“Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“It is only life that has meaning, not death,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“What you don’t have to think about can’t really get to you.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls

“It’s easy to rattle the saber if the enemy’s five thousand or more kilometers distant.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Twilight at the Well of Souls