“You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because youtake it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for asingle hour.”

“They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made briefFor the rest of us death would be relief.”

“The goal is to live... Because even one day, The stars will die.”

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

“When they ask how you’re feeling, you tell them you’re feeling like something important died screaming. You tell them you’re feeling like something even more important arrived breathing, something you should probably try feeding. When they ask how you’re living, you tell them you’re living like something important died hissing. You tell them you’re living like something even more important arrived giving, something you should probably try willing.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”