# Quote — Robert Silverberg, The Book Of Skulls

> The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [The Book Of Skulls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-book-of-skulls.md)
- Page: 62
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#The_Book_of_Skulls_(1972)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-book-of-skulls/the-more-you

## More from this book

> Contrast is everything, Ned said. Incongruity is essential. The secret of art lies in attaining a sense of proper juxtapositions, and what is religion if not a category of art?

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-book-of-skulls/contrast-is-everything.md)

> Morality after the fact, said Eli from the rear, is worse than no morality at all.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-book-of-skulls/morality-after-the.md)

> Why should that be, LuAnn? Why should we be put into such a wonderful world and then have everything taken away from us? God’s will? No, LuAnn, God is love, and God wouldn’t have done such a cruel thing to us, so therefore there is no God, there’s only death, Death, whom we must reject.

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-book-of-skulls/why-should-that.md)