Matthew Tysz > Matthew's Quotes

“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
― Pliny the Elder

“If God himself can't save this world without sacrifice... how can we?”
― Matthew Tysz, The Last City of America

“Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.”
― Matthew Tysz, The Last City of America

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

“In life, there is no lesson greater than patience; and so, there is no teacher greater than a fool.”
― Matthew Tysz

“The first thing you want to ask yourself when you enter a completely unfamiliar land is: 'How do its people treat those who are different?”
― Matthew Tysz

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Stopping isn't an option, even when you reach a dead end.”
― Matthew Tysz, We are Voulhire: The Fires of Virko

“Failing to understand the dogma of our faith had always been my go-to excuse for never trying to. Maybe I wanted too much to reign in the center of my own world, leaving no room at the inn for divine suppositions.”
― Matthew Tysz

“Be virtuous, or be strong; Don't be neither, and definitely don't be both.”
― Matthew Tysz, The Turn

“Once you talk English good, can't nothing change it.”
― Lamont Sanford

“Irony abounds in the sense of comfort and belonging that an introverted man like I can feel by walking up and down the obnoxious avenues of Manhattan.”
― Matthew Tysz

“I enjoy the thought of not having to rely on hope, but on the inconsistent, sometimes tangential unpredictability of human nature.”
― Matthew Tysz

“Telling a novelist to come up with a new idea is like telling a painter to come up with a new color. There are no new ideas... but there are new combinations of ideas.”
― Matthew Tysz

“The best way to learn how to handle being rich is to grow up poor.”
― Matthew Tysz

“See the good in everything, and the best of it will find you.”
― Matthew Tysz, We Are Voulhire: A New Arrival under Great Skies