Marcus > Marcus's Quotes

“A witty saying proves nothing.”
― Voltaire

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“The rose draws our eye and the thorn our blood.”
― David Angsten, Dark Gold

“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
― Charles Manson

“Do you think me evil? Even with his shallow pulse thundering in his ears, the serpentine tickle of the words sickened him.
"Yes," Abbott said weakly.
The creature smiled. "Good.”
― Marcus Hawke, The Miracle Sin

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale