The Walk Quotes

“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit—preferably around the sun. I don't care how much it costs, just so long as I don't end up party of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.”
― Greg Egan, Axiomatic

“Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?”
― Hanson, Take The Walk: A Journey to Awareness, to Action, and to Hope

“It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans, even though Hanson has not always been the coolest thing to be into.”
― Hanson

“The rebels were like a pack of vicious wolves thirsting to rip apart our flesh. (Chap 2 - Apocalypse)”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016

“Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.”
― Shellie Palmer, An Unexpected Journey

“This is all I need: grief counselling from my own assassin.”
― Greg Egan, Axiomatic

“Out of all those hundreds of billions, don't you think there'll be people who are just like you?'
'What are you talking about now? Reincarnation?'
'No. Statistics. There can be no 'reincarnation' - there are no souls to be reborn. But eventually - by pure chance - someone will come along who'll embody everything that defines you.”
― Greg Egan, Axiomatic