Bierce Quotes

“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

“Be sure that head and heart were laid
In wisdom down, content to die.
Be sure he faced the Starless Sky
Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.
(“The Passing of Bierce”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror