Killjoy > Killjoy's Quotes

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt.

Then it's just hilarious.”
― Bill Hicks

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“We buy balloons, we let them go.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad Fehr, Heart of Darkness

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“We were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse. We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign—and no memories. The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“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

“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.”
― Thomas Ligott, Songs of a Dead Dreamer

“Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“Sometimes you just have to keep some distance between yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray