Mark T. Barnes > Quotes

“Perception is often stronger than reality. It is easier for us to see what we believe than it is for us to believe what we see.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“Because i do not travel the same road as you does not mean i am lost.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Pillars of Sand

“Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Pillars of Sand

“HOPE AND EXPECTATION ARE NOT THE SAME THING, THOUGH BOTH WILL LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT. EXIST IN THE MOMENT, ACCEPTING ALL THINGS AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM BE.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Pillars of Sand

“Nothing fills the air with the smoke of funeral pyres so much as loyalty.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way,” Indris drawled. “I’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Pillars of Sand

“Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“We’re all, in one way or another, the architects of the folly we now find ourselves in.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“neither yesterday nor tomorrow exist, for everything happens in the now, and that all things share the one moment.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“We all use the ahmsah to perceive and influence the ahm, the tidal flow of disentropy that flows across the ahmtesh. Our Esoteric Doctrine articulates how we perceive and stimulate natural energy to supernatural ends. Over”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“Is it a greater tragedy to achieve all one’s desires or to lose them all?”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“It’s not something easily done alone and there is no room for error.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“WE SHOULD BE DIRECTED BY REASON, OFTEN AS NOT WE ARE THE SLAVES OF APPETITE. AND THERE IS NO APPETITE SO HARD TO APPEASE AS THAT FOR DESTRUCTION.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“The chance for names to be words, without the burden of emotion. Or hurt. She”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“Zu viele Freunde waren aus seinem Leben verschwunden und hatten nur Stille hinterlassen. Nur eine war zurückgekehrt.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Pillars of Sand

“Swap you a song for your thoughts?”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“With every act of vengeance we murder part of ourselves.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“Wenn sie am Leben ist, dann ist sie an dem Ort, an den sie das Schicksal geführt hat. Doch es scheint, der Ort ist weder hier noch jetzt noch bei dir.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“Though they show me where I die, and take my love away from me, they can't change my destiny, these villains and their treachery.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Garden of Stones

“If a happy ending is what you’re after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it’s the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It’s what they know, and it’s why i write.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart

“OUR LIVES ARE MADE OF RISKS AND REWARDS. OUR ENDEAVOURS, LOVES, AND HOPES ARE ALL PRONE TO THE GREAT RISK OF FAILURE. YET TO RISK NOTHING FOR FEAR OF FAILURE IS TO LIVE IN A SHUTTERED BOX IN A WORLD WHOSE WONDERS YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.”
― Mark T. Barnes, The Obsidian Heart