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“Listen, if there’s a hell, we’re in it. And if there’s a heaven, we’re already there. This is it.”
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“i have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor's woes can be. practical troubles, griefs that can be assuaged if only there is enough to eat—these may be the most intense of all burning hells, horrible enough to blast to smithereens my ten misfortunes, but that is precisely what i don't understand: if my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?”
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“people stuffed with popcorn were commenting on their way out about the great special effects and how realistic it was . . . i went to the bathroom to throw up, because people actually died like that—hundreds and hundreds of people—and it seemed wrong to sit there and eat candies and lick salty butter off your fingers and admire how authentic their deaths in the freezing water looked.”
― Still Missing
― Still Missing
“We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness.
Madness is the emergency exit.
You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…
Forever.”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
Madness is the emergency exit.
You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…
Forever.”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
“I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right… take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I wanna do a really bad thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes I think most people are good and not bad only because they're scared they might go to jail or hell or someplace. Some guy once said: "Anything done out of fear has no moral value" Well, I think that's right. I figure the only way you can be truly good is if you've tried been good, and you've tried being bad, and being good feels better.”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
― Batman: The Killing Joke
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