„If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death.“

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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„The meaning of this story is not found in the drowning of the Egyptian soldiers, for no one should rejoice at the death or defeat of a human being. Rather, this story symbolizes the death of evil and of inhuman oppression and unjust exploitation.“
— Jr.
„And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.“
— Michael Ende
„Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]“
— Agatha Christie