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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club
    tags: evil, humanity
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    Stephen King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark-tower, horror
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

    In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: cthulhu
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    Stephen King
    “At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago.”
    ― Stephen King, Cell
    tags: 2006, evolution, horror
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    Stephen King
    “Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: clown, eddie, fear, grownups, horror, it, monster, pennywise, stephen-king
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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    James Scott Bell
    “...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.”
    ― James Scott Bell, Sins of the Fathers
    tags: complaints, cynicism, god, humor
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    Sarah Dessen
    “If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
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    Tamar Myers
    “I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.”
    ― Tamar Myers, As the World Churns
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    George R.R. Martin
    “There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: game-of-thrones, heroes, monsters, sansa, sansa-stark
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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    Guillermo del Toro
    “The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
    ― Guillermo Del Toro
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    Arthur Machen
    “silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
    ― Arthur Machen
    tags: character, strength
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    Arthur Machen
    “We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
    ― Arthur Machen, The Terror
    tags: dream, horror, moon, reality, space, stars, time
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    Arthur Machen
    “There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.”
    ― Arthur Machen, The Red Hand
    tags: evil, horror, sacraments
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    Arthur Machen
    “Old stories often turn out to be true.”
    ― Arthur Machen, The Terror and Other Stories
    tags: the-children-of-the-pool
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    Arthur Machen
    “And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more”
    ― Arthur Machen
    tags: rocks
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: god, humor
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, cruelty, ethics, ethics-in-religion, morality, morality-without-religion, religion, selfishness, stupidity
    760 likes

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    Bill Hicks
    “I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: humour, misanthropy
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    Ryukishi07
    “...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.”
    ― Ryukishi07
    tags: interview
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    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
    ― Hayao Miyazaki
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