Matthew Curtis > Matthew's Quotes

“Ungern's survival was due partly to blind luck, partly to an almost suicidal absence of fear. As he was shown winning his medals, he could do things so madly heroic that his enemies would often pause in sheer astonishment. Perhaps it was this very visibility that let him live; among the mass slaughter, it may have been harder, psychologically, to fire at a man who was so determined not to be anonymous.”
― James Palmer, [The Bloody White Baron] (By: James Palmer) [published: March, 2008]

“Life ', he declared later 'is the result of war, and society is the instrument of war... to refuse war means to refuse an epic life”
― James Palmer, [The Bloody White Baron] (By: James Palmer) [published: March, 2008]

“I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception.”
― James Palmer, [The Bloody White Baron] (By: James Palmer) [published: March, 2008]

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S Thompson

“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
― Hunter S Thompson

“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most cautious man and the most carefree, as so often in the war, survived ...”
― Ernst Junger

“The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer”
― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

“We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.”
― Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel

“In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high.”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

“As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.”
― Ernst Jünger, Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918

“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”
― Ernst Jünger, On Pain

“I had always been man enough to ruin myself without help.”
― Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees