C.J. Anderson > C.J.'s Quotes

“Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.”
― C.J. Anderson, No Kingdom Come

“God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?”
― C.J. Anderson, No Kingdom Come

“God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.”
― C.J. Anderson, No Kingdom Come

“Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.”
― C.J. Anderson, No Kingdom Come

“I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?”
― C.J. Anderson, Djesus Undead

“Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.”
― C.J. Anderson, Djesus Undead

“One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.”
― C.J. Anderson, Djesus Undead

“Heaven has no idea its Queen is on the edge of suicide.”
― C.J. Anderson, Djesus Undead

“Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.”
― C.J. Anderson, Klarity

“I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”
― C.J. Anderson, Klarity

“Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.”
― C.J. Anderson, Klarity

“Faith does not reveal the truth about God; faith just keeps you in the dark.”
― C.J. Anderson, Klarity

“This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.”
― C.J. Anderson, Klarity

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help.”
― C.J. Anderson, Extinction Protocol

“It is impossible to exist without passion”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Faith is the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion.”
― C.J. Anderson, Extinction Protocol

“Invisible love is wasted. Invisible evidence is worthless. Invisible God is non-existent.”
― C.J. Anderson, Extinction Protocol

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll be good at this. I doubt it, but who knows. The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would have never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and sheild it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.”
― C.J. Anderson, Ruinland