Last Days Quotes

“...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he’d been damaged by it, permanently.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious professional leaders in the commercial arena, in this most material of ages. How many of them should be in charge of anything, let alone other people?”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“He wondered if they all had been fundamentally damaged by their time in the cult, or whether the association made them irretrievably alien in the ordinary worlds they tried to inhabit.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Skeptizismus ist das Privileg derjenigen, die nicht betroffen sind.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history...”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Scepticism was a luxury for the unaffected.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“We worshipped a devil instead. Asked it to lead us. To manipulate and divide us. To disinvest us of our livelihoods, our freedom, our dignity, and even our lives, in the service of itself.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous. The malignant narcissist. And there are many willing to take the place of a deposed tyrant, to ape them. And the rest of us, down here, cannot discriminate in the choice of our leaders, even if we have anything resembling a real choice. We cannot lead ourselves rationally or humanely or fairly, so we choose the most unscrupulous and egotistical to lead us. Into one war and one holocaust after another.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“A foetal abhorrence. A postnatal blasphemy.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“And when you have committed a vast and inhuman crime, what do you do with the evidence? You destroy it. It’s what tyrants do. What they have always done.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“water butt”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“VW van.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“Among us!”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“His rectum squeezed itself into an even tighter ring.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history. Different worlds, different means, same intention. Empowerment, enrichment, self-interest, at the expense of all but itself. Their strength is their suppression of conscience. But is there another way? This is the question we should ask.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“My point, my dear boys, is that there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. Unable to stop ourselves serving. This is our greatest tragedy. A tragedy because it is universal, and it is timeless, as all true tragedies are. And we cannot learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of our forefathers. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot are the macrocosm. Add Napoleon, perhaps Caesar, even Alexander? These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?’ Jed knocked back a glass of whisky. ‘There would have been others. It makes no difference.’ Max clapped his small hands with excitement. ‘Which makes our tragedy all the greater through its inevitability. We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous. The malignant narcissist. And there are many willing to take the place of a deposed tyrant, to ape them. And the rest of us, down here, cannot discriminate in the choice of our leaders, even if we have anything resembling a real choice. We cannot lead ourselves rationally or humanely or fairly, so we choose the most unscrupulous and egotistical to lead us. Into one war and one holocaust after another.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“Because Hitler was Stalin’s great evil peer. And like Stalin in his Dacha in 1941, opportunities to kill Hitler were also missed. Twentieth-century history would have been different if we’d had more luck in assassinating our tyrants. Two men and their wills, and the wills of their amoral favourites, we can say at the last count, were responsible for the deaths of fifty-six million people within that seven-year conflict. Not forgetting the irreparable devastation to the lives of those who survived the respective legacies of these tyrants. Can it be sanely argued that men such as they should not have been executed earlier?”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“You know, in the airport, coming over, I watched the people around us.’ Kyle shook his head where he lay on the floor, staring at the polystyrene ceiling tiles. ‘So many of them thought they had an audience. They were performing. Because everyone thinks they’re on stage these days. The Show Of Me, mate. Facebook. Twitter. Twitter my arse. Mobile phones? Eh? They’re not for communicating, they’re for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. We are an audience to every shithead with an iPhone. I can’t turn on the telly without some silly bitch with big teeth showing off.’ It was the thrust, the constant thrust of other personalities, the desperate need for attention, for their own reality drama, for their own public relations rituals to be seen, heard, remembered. A white noise of self-interest.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“People, Dan, they’ll do anything … anything for status.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“it. But light, my dear boy, is as essential to life as water. It purifies the spirit. Opens the heart. Cleanses the mind.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“You know, in the airport, coming over, I watched the people around us.’ Kyle shook his head where he lay on the floor, staring at the polystyrene ceiling tiles. ‘So many of them thought they had an audience. They were performing. Because everyone thinks they’re on stage these days. The Show Of Me, mate. Facebook. Twitter. Twitter my arse. Mobile phones? Eh? They’re not for communicating, they’re for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. We are an audience to every shithead with an iPhone.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

“Koba the Dread by Martin Amis.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days