# Quote — Stephen Donaldson, The Power That Preserves

> The answer to death was to make use of it rather than fall victim to it—master it by making it serve his goals, beliefs. This was not a good answer. But it was the only answer he had.

- Author: [Stephen Donaldson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson.md)
- Book: [The Power That Preserves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves.md)
- Page: 468
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Power_that_Preserves_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/the-answer-to-death

## More from this book

> Do not be too quick to judge the makers of worlds. Will you ever write a story for which no character will have caused to reproach you?

p. 473 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/do-not-be-too.md)

> He smiled because he was alive.

p. 480 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/he-smiled-because.md)

> “I’ll tell you what it is. It’s a goddam miracle, that’s what it is.”
>
> “Come, now,” the older man murmured. “I don’t believe in miracles—neither do you.”

p. 479 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/ill-tell-you.md)