Michael R. Fletcher > Quotes

“A sane man is simply a man afraid to unleash his inner demons.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“I was sane once. It was horrible.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone. —EXCERPT FROM “THE POWER OF FEAR” BY HALBER TOD”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“only dare tread the waters of insanity at night as they lie dreaming. Cowards. Dive deep into your psychopathy. Let loose the demons of delusion and know, in the end, when they finally devour you, you swam with sharks. —VERSKLAVEN SCHWACHE, GEFAHRGEIST PHILOSOPHER”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Her lungs, like moldering cheesecloth sacks, hung visible between cracked and yellowing ribs. Her internal organs, long absent, only flaked brown gristle clung to her spine. Sparse clumps of pale hair clung to the few shreds of flesh still gripping her skull. Five other Cotardist assassins stood mutely behind her. Though none looked to be such an advanced state of decay, they all showed signs of rot and neglect.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Listen carefully. If communication is manipulation, sex is all-out war.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.
The hand leaked life as meaning was pucked. Putrefaction clutched love and was thrown to the midden.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly lose control. That moment when our minds white out and thought vanishes, when the fire within us devours all rationality.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The doing is the easy part. It’s the deciding to do that is difficult. I most regret the decisions never made.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Culture, like religion, depends on the indoctrination of children before they are able to question or think for themselves.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Smoke and Stone

“No one thanks you for showing them the light.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“We are each living a story. What many of us are too afraid to admit is that we are the authors of our story. You are living the life you chose for yourself. You are living the result of each and every one of your choices. If you are letting others make decisions for you, you are allowing them to write your story. Do they have your best interests at heart? If you are unhappy, whose fault is that? Don’t like your life, go write yourself a better one.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, The Mirror’s Truth

“Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“For all Wichtig spoke of trust, he trusted no one. For all he spoke of wisdom, he learned nothing. Every word he uttered was done so with an eye toward manipulation.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The power of faith is the fear of the unknown.
The power of love is the fear of dying alone.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Confident men didn’t hunger for worship, didn’t crave fear. The wants of a man who likes himself are so very different from those of a man drowning in self-loathing.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, She Dreams in Blood

“No, it is you who doesn’t understand. The facts don’t matter and that’s a fact. I wasn’t winning the crowd with logic, I was simply sowing seeds of doubt and bolstering my own confidence.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“You can lead a horse to water, but drowning it is surprisingly difficult.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Trustworthy people, was that an oxymoron?”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Ghosts of Tomorrow

“Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.”
― Michael R. Fletcher

“The deranged tended to live in segregated parts of town where their delusions would not be tainted and limited by the proximity of the solid beliefs of the pathetic sane.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption