Isiah > Isiah's Quotes

“Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people. ”
― Frank Herbert

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert

“You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno