Silverlock Quotes

“The steps to degradation are only three: the actuality of the shameful condition, the recognition of the actuality while feeling unable to do anything about it, and then acceptance of it as the normal state of affairs.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Don’t take it hard. Your heart will heal up, if it hasn’t already, and will be all the stronger for having had a work out. Here,”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Who would willingly forfeit any experience that is not shameful or crippling?”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“It’s only good sense to go looking for trouble, because then at least you have your eyes open; while if you stay still, trouble will sneak up on you and pot you like a sitting bird.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Once I had surrendered motion, despond fixed me. After a while I slid off the rock I was perched on, lay down, and rolled over on my face. In time feeling was so narrowed that even hopelessness was squeezed out. I all but was not.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Madness is a distrust of reason.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Sometimes finish and end don't mean the same thing.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Everybody has an idea of himself which augments, aggravates, or modifies the actuality.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“I recall thinking that I was stroking toward either the end of all life or the beginning of a new one. Neither possibility stirred me. Every man knows he will die; and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of sane being. I wasn't able to credit my own non-existence any better than the next man; what I had lost was a healthy abhorrence of the state. It had not dropped from me because of any particular shock or misfortune. It had moulted from me year by year, for all of my thirty-five, to leave me naked in apathy.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock

“Every man knows he will die; and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of sane being.”
― John Myers Myers, Silverlock