Joseph Duncan > Quotes

“In a culture that worshipped its ancestors, to die without offspring was next of kin to damnation.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“And what was the truth? Simply enough: that the world in which we are born, the world in which we spend our every waking hour… that world is an illusion. It is a beautiful fantasy, a bright and shining madness, full of pleasure and pain, appetite and satiation. There is love and hate, the seasons and the heavens and all manner of colorful baubles whose only purpose is to distract from the reality that lies beyond. All of it trickery, and reality waiting just a hair’s breadth away, crouched like a starving predator, ready to devour any hand that might come plunging through.”
― Joseph Duncan, House of Dead Trees

“No child is ever loved as they are loved by the ones who gave them life.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“I believed in the spirits of my ancestors.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“I have visited a great many cathedrals and have yet to burst into flames.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“Sometimes I think it is that loneliness that drove our species a little bit insane. Why else would we have invented such a vast assortment of preposterous characters, all those pantheons of mad gods and uncountable legions of angels and devils and supernatural dream-things, if not to fill the void”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“You cannot escape pain through the gate of rational thought, for the gatekeeper of reason is not a gullible fellow. But the gatekeeper of the imagination is a trusting fool, and easily distracted by flights of fancy.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Betrayed

“We worshiped our ancestors. We believed in the spirits of men and animals,”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“I have always found it both bitter and sweet that men become childlike in their old age.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded

“Music has the power to seduce me. A world without music would be a world without color, without dreams.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire In Love

“Sometimes I think love is the most terrible emotion we are burdened with, for it pains us more than any other, yet what joy would there be in living were it not for love? It is a double-edged sword.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Unleashed

“have never understood why men would rather fight and die than stay home and make babies. Make love, not war; that has ever been my philosophy. Laugh if you will, but I have never thought”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Reborn

“made me nervous, swinging that gun around so”
― Joseph Duncan, Doc Wormwood and the Lair of the Daido-Shotheth

“Sometimes it is better to suffer the itch of curiosity than to be subject to the sting of satisfaction.”
― Joseph Duncan, The Oldest Living Vampire Unleashed