Ted Laughton > Quotes

“But gold is merely one such pyre upon which men have thrown themselves throughout their long and sordid history upon the earth. There are other fires that burn in the hearts of men—just as scorching, just as deadly.”
― Ted Laughton, We Burn Our Dead

“True nightmares are not what troubled minds fall asleep to find; they are what hopeful hearts wake to see sitting at their morning bedside, having waited all along.”
― Ted Laughton, We Burn Our Dead

“It was always the same—one man starting after another. It was as if they saw in each other something of their own natures laid bare, and it galled them.”
― Ted Laughton, We Burn Our Dead

“There is so much pain in her, and pain leads to recklessness.”
― Ted Laughton, We Burn Our Dead

“If your sense of honor does not urge you on to some better course,” Marney said, his voice softening, “surely some sense of self-preservation must, for neither man nor wall can keep out what comes for us in the end.”
― Ted Laughton, We Burn Our Dead

“He was staring off into the night, where the palms whispered and the sea heaved a distant sigh, where insects clicked and hummed with restless wings. That way lay the unknown, where all tomorrow’s problems waited on the sun. Most men, Jack knew, did not venture far when the shadows grew long. Jack, for his part, had always been a great one for working by night. Much could be done in darkness to ensure a more pleasing tomorrow—an old friend had taught him that.”
― Ted Laughton, Darker Waters