James > James's Quotes

“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“A man chooses...a slave obeys.”
― Andrew Ryan

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold.
How does that differ from idol worship, except
Those people worship one god and you a hundred?”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno