Blake Crouch Quotes

“Hunger, disease, war, warming- these threats loom over us like building storm clouds. But ninety-nine percent of humanity reads about our crumbling world in the morning headlines, then ignores it and gets on with their day.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“Human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man.- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“...perhaps there's a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves an an anaesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Wenn die Gewalt zur Norm wird, passen sich die Menschen an die Norm an.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“Unter gewissen Umständen schließen Sicherheit und Wahrheit einander aus.”
― Blake Crouch, Wayward

“Du kannst werden, was immer du willst. Was du dir auch in den Kopf setzt. Folge einfach deinem Herzen und lebe deine Träume." - Die guten alten Plattitüden einer ausgestorbenen Spezies.”
― Blake Crouch, Wayward

“...the light of my lonely summer evenings stretched past ten o'clock, the water like glass until a fish leaped and the sun lingering, lingering- a guest who wouldn't leave.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“I wondered who I had become.
What I had become.
I wept.
I screamed.
I laughed hysterically.
I clawed at my skin and ripped out my hair.
I wanted to die.
I wanted to live forever.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically- tragically- our creation's complexity had now far outstripped our brains' ability to manage it.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade

“El tiempo es una ilusión, un constructo hecho de recuerdos humanos. El pasado, el presente y el futuro no existen. Todo está ocurriendo ahora.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion