Eric > Eric's Quotes

“As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary”
― jim butcher

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.

And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
― Jim Butcher

“An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Skip it. We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies

“As long as you have some idea of what’s happening to you, ‘real’ or ‘unreal’ doesn’t matter.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land

“we live, and strive, and seek to define the sense of our being. And it is good, for though we compose a scant blink across the eyes of eternity, yet while the blink lasts we choose what we will, create what we may, and share ourselves with each other as the stars did ere they were bereaved.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“A sealed door admits no light.’ Will you not speak to me? No hand may open that door but your own.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“When the spirit is not altogether slain, great loss teaches men and women to desire greatly, both for themselves and for others.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“You’ve got it backward. You’re doing it to yourself. Punishing yourself for something you didn’t have the power to change. You can’t forgive yourself, so you refuse to forgive anybody else.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“Freedom doesn’t mean you get to choose what happens to you. But you do get to choose how you react to it.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“All power is an articulation of its wielder. There is no other source than life—and the desire of that life to express itself.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree

“Fear feeds the worst in all of us. It drives the most despicable of our natures to the surface.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“There are prisons of all kinds, Zoey, they take every shape imaginable. They aren’t just concrete, and steel, and stone. They’re everywhere. And even when you’ve escaped one, there’s always another waiting. But you must remember that the first step to freedom doesn’t always start with picking a lock.” He reaches out and touches her temple. “It begins here.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Service enables service. Hope came from the power and value of what was served, not from the one who served it.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder

“We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder

“There’s only one way to hurt a man who’s lost everything. Give him back something broken.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder

“Castigation is a doom which achieves itself. In punishing yourself, you come to merit punishment.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder

“Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it may its uses be understood, its true worth measured.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder

“Unearned knowledge rules its wielder, to the cost of both.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder