# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, They Fly at Ciron

> Half dead’s a lot worse than dead, when you know you’re gonna die in another three, six days no matter what anyone else does.

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [They Fly at Ciron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/they-fly-at-ciron.md)
- Page: 166
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#They_Fly_at_%C3%87iron_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/they-fly-at-ciron/half-deads-a-lot

## More from this book

> Oh, I cannot tell you how the notion of eternity bores me—not to mention all the silly stories we are always making up to render the idea palatable!

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/they-fly-at-ciron/oh-i-cannot.md)

> Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/they-fly-at-ciron/oh-i-assure.md)

> I have always tried to do what was right. But long ago I learned that being right was a brutal, cruel, and thankless position. Oh—I wish I could see you more clearly! If you pursue yourself in that manner, your friends will criticize you for it, call you a fool—as I have called you. But then, with only a few unhappy moments, I’ve always considered myself your friend. The things that made you hate me, I only did to shock you, to wake you up, to make you become yourself…

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/they-fly-at-ciron/i-have-always.md)