Jacob > Jacob's Quotes

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.”
― David Brin, The Postman

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon: The Classic Apocalyptic Novel of Courage, Survival, and Determination After Nuclear Holocaust

“Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
― John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”
― Clifford D. Simak, City

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Robert E. Howard

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“the knowledge that life is worthless is the flower of all human wisdom.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark