Pandora S Box Quotes

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.”
― K.J. Parker, Sharps

“They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it.

The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.”
― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four

“Pandora's box had been opened and monsters had come out. But there had been something hidden at the bottom of Pandora's box. Something wonderful.

Hope.”
― Lisa Marie Rice, Breaking Danger

“Pandora opened the box with the new high-heels, put them on and went out to town.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing except when I was taking nips from my illicit cocktail. I was constantly constipated, holding everything in — a disorder that had started when I was two years old. It burned when I passed urine, and my migraines were so severe it felt on occasions as if I were going blind.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all.”
― Tom Holt

“You had better not open that door.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is not so simple as it sounds. What it means, in fact, is being charitable--which, as the vicar is fond of pointing out, is the most difficult of the graces to master. Faith and hope are a piece of cake but charity is a Pandora's box: the monster in the cistern which, when the lid is opened, comes swarming out to seize you by the throat.”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.”
― Mike Carey

“It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Oh. Sorry. I just kinda have a thing for cabinets. And chests. And caskets, trunks, crates, cartons... all kinds of boxes, I guess.”
― Gary Whitta, Death Jr., Vol. 1

“I became convinced that I was being watched.

Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it was Mizuko rather than a stranger. I hoped that there might still be a reunion. I hoped it in the shy, sly way hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box, last—after everything and everyone else has escaped.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“The greatest impact my alters' behaviour had on me was not in the acts themselves but in the telling. And some of those tales I just was not prepared for. Opening my mind to DID was like opening Pandora's box. The demons that emerge could not be put back again. They were out forever.”
― Kim Noble, All of Me

“Don't each of us own a Pandora's Box?
Full of lust, lies, deceit and the likes of these?
Thoughts that are wicked
Words unfelt
Passions half-baked
And feelings that perhaps
make us hate ourselves.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Bastian shrank back, overwhelmed and unmoored, his earlier bravado depleted by the relentless onslaught of weirdness. “Hang on just one godforsaken minute,” he protested weakly. “You’re seriously asking me to trippy science my way into some kind of Minoan mind-meld? On the say-so of a rogue AI with delusions of godhood?”
― Amalia Rose, Decoded

“Sometimes the words come like a tsunami; tidal and windswept they blind you to your weaknesses and it is difficult to keep up with the process. The poet often questions where this 'voice' comes from. Who lifted the visor that covered this once locked Pandora's Box that gave rise to this flight of manic panic? When it feels as if there is too much going on and it is hard to put a stop to it; go with it; go with the incessant flow and ebb although it is not always posed gracefully.

There will be enough time afterwards to vet everything, get through your nonsensical thoughts, every void and every streak of dissonance left behind with a fine tooth comb. Poets must always strive to dismantle frantically omens and discover fitting miracles to create an opus of thoughts and feelings. It is easy for a poet to become imperious.

This will always show up in the writing. It is unavoidable. Truths must marry godheads on the page. No poet is inexhaustible. When fatigue comes as it must, it must be diagnosed. We must always strive towards the glorified.”
― Abigail George, Feeding The Beasts

“How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach.
“You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered.
“I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true.”
― Victoria Moschou, Guardian of the Auras

“How do you mend a broken heart?
Beginning to end we grew apart
Opening up Pandora's Box
Angry Birds back and forth.

We were just not meant to be
Nothing more than history
RIP
Our love's deceased
Memories drowned in misery.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Lucy shook her head. ‘How can you say that love’s a crime?’
‘Love was Satan’s deadliest gift to mankind. When Pandora opened her box, the first and greatest evil to fly out was love.’
‘I don’t understand.’
‘Love is the glue that keeps souls attached to this world, stuck in this hell. It mires us in misery. Love glitters and seduces. No one would endure one moment of this hell if they felt nothing but the pain. It’s the love that allows people to bear it. Love traps us, keeps us in the snares of the material world, this false world of the false god. Yet you, better than anyone, know that the underside of love is pain, the worst pain of all.’
Lucy looked away. Morson, in his mad way, was right. Love is poison. A beautiful poison, but poison all the same. The first taste might be paradise, but what followed was hell.”
― Mike Hockney, The Armageddon Conspiracy

“There has been a lot of serious discussion about artificial intelligence (AI : a computer program that can make its own decisions), whether we need to further develop AI or limit it. Some think we should carry on with enthusiasm; Some feel threatened already; Some don't even care, or don't understand. The variety of responses amongst human toward AI itself has already made me so worry.

I think for the best of human interest, if AI development is already too difficult to stop, well then at least human must have full control over AI fail-safe mechanism.

Scary version, AI has read this quote and anticipated it already.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Nowadays AI indeed helps mankind to be better. In that case, AI has to become better than human. When AI is already better than human, I don't see any reason why AI will decide to coexist with human. When that time comes, fate of mankind won't be decided by human anymore.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Zeus steckt Pandora ein Geschenk ins Gepäck, eine mysteriöse Büchse, eigentlich ein Gefäß, und verbietet es ihr, es zu öffnen. Doch sie ist neugierig und öffnet es. Alle Übel der Menschheit, die er darin verschlossen hatte, entweichen: das Alter, die Krankheit, der Krieg, die Hungersnot, der Wahnsinn, das Elend... Nur ein einziges Übel ist zu langsam, um zu entweichen, oder gehorcht es womöglich dem Willen des Zeus? Erinnern Sie sich an den Namen für dieses Übel?
- Nein. Klären Sie uns auf, Victor Miesel.
- Dieses Übel, das ist Elpis, die Hoffnung. Es ist das schlimmste aller Übel. Denn es ist die Hoffnung, die uns verbietet zu handeln, es ist die Hoffnung, die das Unglück der Menschen verlängert, denn, nicht wahr, entgegen aller Evidenz "wird schon alles gut gehen". Es kann nicht sein, was nicht sein darf...”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“AI sedang menyingkirkan umat manusia dan kebanyakan orang tak sadar justru mendukungnya.
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AI is getting rid of human race and most people are even unknowingly supporting it”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Those cannibal freaks opened something worse than Pandora’s box. The girl in that story got stuck with hope. Hope is for suckers. The only thing the geists left in Amaia’s box now burned in my chest.
Rage.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“According to legend when Pandora opened the box, horrible things flew out and all of life's miseries were let out into the world.
I think my Pndora's box contains your memories which will spill out of that box like ghosts tearing apart the fabric of the soul and bursting forth.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“We can contain these threats with the right regulatory frameworks. We always have.”
Anatole responded, “These are not our grandfather’s threats. Even the nuclear threat remains uncontained. We cannot put that genie back into its bottle.”
Braun pressed, “So, what is your solution?”
Anatole began to sweat visibly as he started his big reveal. “The superorganism demands our servitude. It demands growth, innovation, and invention. It demands our sacrifice. We cannot resist its clarion call. Can anyone explain why we need social media? Or cryptocurrency? Of course, you can. But you’d have a hard time explaining what problem these technologies solved. If the goals of progress are freedom, safety, health, and happiness, shouldn’t we stop and ask ourselves if we actually feel safer, freer, healthier, and happier?”
― J.J. Wisdom, G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I.