Peter > Peter's Quotes

“He's walking like a dead man
If he had lived he would have crucified us all
Now he's standing on his last step
He thought oblivion, well it beckons us all
from Iron Maiden: Children of the Damned”
― Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast Sheet Music

“I lie awake and dread the lonely nights
I'm not alone
I wonder if these heavy eyes
Can face the unknown
When I close my eyes I realize
You'll come my way
I'm standing in the night alone
Forever together”
― Dokken, Dreamwarriors

“Darkness blinded him. It was heavy on him, and moved. It was more than darkness: it was flesh".”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Faces at Pine Dunes

“It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead.”
― John Saul, Second Child

“The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed.”
― John Saul, Midnight Voices

“The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.”
― John Saul, Shadows

“And the human fear of eternal nothingness is the greatest fear of all. It is the one fear which every religion in the world seeks to assuage. It is the fear of being totally gone.”
― Graham Masterton, Night Warriors I

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
― Tom Waits

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“There's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of public to believe that we might prove this wrong.”
― Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

“It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn't.”
― Stephen King, Outsider

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
― Jim Henson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.”
― Bob Dylan

“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Most of life consists of two steps:
Show up.
Don't give up.”
― Marco Etheridge

“I see you are reading a sad story," Mother said sympathetically to the now less-than-august lady, though privately she wondered how you could sleep with a man with such bad handwriting.”
― Charles Newman, In Partial Disgrace

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The lightning-rod man still dwells in the land; still travels in storm-time, and drives a brave trade with the fear of man.”
― Herman Melville, The Lightning-Rod Man

“Words give things power somehow.”
― Albert Berg, Beach Scene

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“In his mind he saw Ligeia standing naked on the top of the point, breasts jutting out in the dark like beacons of lust. A human lighthouse of doom.”
― John Everson, Siren