Samuel Edme > Samuel's Quotes

“I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.”
― Stephan Pastis

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. ”
― harvey pekar

“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.”
― Harvey Pekar

“There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)”
― Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

“The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It’s just bad writing, really. And it’s really terrible in about the second act.”
― Trey Parker

“If you literally believe the story of Noah, try getting a monkey in a car during a storm. It's almost impossible. Now do it one more time.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgemental ghost?”
― Dan Barker

“God, to me, is pretty much an idea. God, to me, is pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.”
― Seth Green

“The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.”
― Daniel Clowes, Caricature

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Anyone can kill you, but it takes someone you know to really HURT you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 9

“Most of the time, we don’t even realize we’ve live through something worth commemorating until long after it’s already ended.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 9

“Batman’s not a hero. He’s a complicated character. I don’t think I could ever play a real hero — there’s always got to be something a little bit wrong. I think it’s because one of my eyes is smaller than the other one.”
― Robert Pattinson

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.

Was Rorschach.

Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche