Jack Morris > Jack's Quotes

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters.

-Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Do ants get headaches?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." "Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Every nowhere is somewhere[...]”
― David Mitchell , Cloud Atlas

“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“All rising suns set.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“We had run out of infinity.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Only the inanimate can be so alive.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“A handful of gems from Somni:
"One's environment is a key to one's identity."

"An impulse can be both vaguely understood and strong."

"What is knowledge for, if not used to better our/one's existence?"

"My IQ may be higher but she looked more content then I felt.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
― Henry James