Matthew > Matthew's Quotes

“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Our future may indeed be roses, or it may be extinction, but only one thing is certain: the journey there is going to be unpredictable and far more remarkable”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“The patron saint of altered states, maybe, or of edges, of missing guardrails and falling off cliffs.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now

“Well, since alcohol is anti-microbial, that is to say, deadly to germs, humans who drank that instead of water would die at a much lower rate from waterborne pathogens – which, prior to industrial water treatment and purification, were ubiquitous. And so the booze hounds would proliferate, out-surviving and out-reproducing the water-drinkers. Alcoholism may actually be an adaptation. Yes, that would mean the bugs on this planet have bred an entire race of booze hounds. Ain’t evolution a bitch?”
― Michael Stephen Fuchs, Death of Empires

“Do you have any idea how much dumber our species has gotten since we invented the computer? Well neither do I- I'd have to look it up with a computer.”
― Nicolas Wilson, Nexus

“I think it was Ben Franklin who said, 'Inspiration is 45% peyote, 45% fever dream, and then 35% neurosyphillis;”
― Nicolas Wilson, Nexus

“Nonsense,” he laughed. “It’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s only a purr-pull peephole eater.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack: Classic and Modern Science Fiction

“First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people!”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack: Classic and Modern Science Fiction

“lurches forward like a charging rhino,”
― Robert Kroese, Schrodinger's Gat

“You can’t rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.”
― Robert Kroese, Schrodinger's Gat

“Whenever I think I’m cynical, I find out I’m nowhere near cynical enough.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Doubt Factory

“Do not try any of this at home. The author of this book is an Internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“it’s hidden, even from her.” Frey laughed. “We both know that’s not true anymore. I wasn’t there in person,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Amped

“In the end, there is cruelty and death alone over the land. Not in a single ray of light or grain of sand will you find solace, for all is dark, and the cold gaze of God’s indifferent, heavy-lidded eyes falls on all with equal disdain. Only in your inner strength is there salvation; you must live just as a tree must live, or the cockroaches and fleas that flourish in the land and ruin of Earth. And so you live, and feel the sting of knowing you live. You eat whatever comes to hand, and if what you eat was once a brother or sister, so be it; God does not care. Nobody cares. You whore, and if you whore with man or woman, nobody cares; for when all are hungry, all are whores, even those who use the whores. And disease flourishes when all are whores, for germs must live, and spread across the land and ruin of Earth.”
― Greg Bear, Eternity

“They were middle-aged men who had grown soft with success and harder because of it,”
― Boston Teran, The Cloud and the Fire

“say bad things come in threes, but I don’t think that’s true. I think bad things keep right on coming.”
― Hugh Howey, Beacon 23

“And Rocky still sounds angry at me for drilling a hole through his skull. I only did it to keep him close. Woulda lost him otherwise. Do we have to hurt the ones we love to keep them close?”
― Hugh Howey, Beacon 23

“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
― Sigmund Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939;

“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Join the Army, see the world. Meet new and exciting people, and kill them.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She’s”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“Fanaticism means that if you’re not against me, you’re against me.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye