Realisations Quotes

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.”
― Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints

“It is true, I suppose, that nobody finds it exactly pleasant to be criticised or be shouted at, but I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colour, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile, or lion. People normally seem to be hiding his true nature, but an occasion will arise when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“If you imagine all the possible contradictions and incompatibilities, you'll see them all combined in the government, the judicial courts, the churches, and the spectacles of this funny old nation.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“(Taken from Chapter Three 'The Bewildered Herd', After the massacre, Rebeka's reflects on her work at Project Code-X...)
We were rounded up like frightened animals, who didn’t know what their fate was going to be. I was comforted a little by having Michael’s company. It afforded me some protection from the pandemonium of grief and raw emotion that was all around me. I was able to hide my face from it, and perhaps hide my guilt too. Was I really to blame for all of this? Project Code-X wasn’t just written on my hands, it was carved into my heart and flowing through my veins. It was my life’s work, my ambition, my achievement, the pinnacle of my career. I had given my life to it and it had taken my life from me. In truth, I was no more than its slave. Project Code-X wasn’t just a secret Government project; it was a living and breathing entity. It was a life-force, a parasite, an animal, a wild beast that fed on human lives. It drank human blood and fed on human flesh. It sucked you in and spat you out – all in the name of science.”
― S.J. Robinson, Beta to Psi

“How can I ever do anything extraordinary with such a mundane existence?”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“The truth lies behind the strain in her voice, wallows in her hollow laugh. And now I recognise it for what it is; a buzz that’s existed since we met; the threatening stinger of a persistent lie.”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“Went looking for a mirror but ended up finding a window...”
― Hansini.S