Jithin K Mohan > Jithin's Quotes

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You're beginning to get the idea, Clark. We could have changed the world…now…look at us…I've become a political liability…and…you…you're a joke. I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

“Of course we're Criminals”
― Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“You are putting yourself in serious danger...'

I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“In every religion, you find the same extremists.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“It can't rain all the time.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Nothing is trivial.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Death, like virtue, has its degrees.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow, édition définitive

“Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
― James O'Barr, The Crow