Teguh Samudra > Teguh's Quotes

“Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do.

It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“See you in the funny pages...mate”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don’t you think?”
― Stephen King, 11.22.63

“It isn’t that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It’s that the truth is too hideous to face.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I found you, but in finding you, I lost myself.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have; for both are infinite. —William Shakespeare”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Do I dare?”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer