The Last One Quotes

“The only private spaces we have are inside our own minds. The thoughts we conceal from one another. From ourselves.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“Humans can survive three weeks with no food, three days with no water, three hours with no shelter if it’s cold, three minutes with no hope.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“There are some moments in life when you realize, deep inside yourself, that nothing will ever be quite the same again.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“All actions have consequences,”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“I begin my descent. Part of me, the part that’s tempted to jump off a cliff or crash a car, that tiny fragment of insanity buried deep within all our brains, is ready to loosen my grip and slide all the way down. I grin manically at the thought of it.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“Where there are gaps in our knowledge, we fill them with best-guess theories and philosophies of convenience.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“Before you lose someone, you cannot predict the shape or depth of the hole their absence will leave in your life.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“To stay loose and relaxed is to survive. That way you don’t crack and make a dangerous mistake.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“Where there are gaps in our knowledge, we fill those gaps with best-guess theories and philosophies of convenience.”
― Will Dean, The Last Passenger

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. —MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“Superficial appeasement of the people. Credited to Juvenal, I believe, a Roman poet born after Christ’s time. It means the powerful remain powerful by way of distraction and cheap satisfaction of the most base and immediate needs of the masses. No need for meaning or civic involvement.”
― Will Dean, The Last One

“The only rational explanation to me is that a thousand passengers woke up in the middle of the night and quietly, solemnly, threw themselves overboard.”
― Will Dean, The Last One