The Haunted Mesa Quotes

“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding?
We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parallel to ours, are all the doors closed? Or does one, here or there, stand ajar?”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“No doubt there was discussion, argument, and some local exploration, limited by fear that the steamboat my be transferred back while the explorers were gone. After a while, no doubt, that possibility must have become improbable. Slowly they adjusted, although no doubt hope remained.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“If even half the stories were true, a large part of the population must have been engaged in burying treasure and losing mines. Outlaws were popularly supposed to have buried their loot when most of them couldn’t spend it fast enough. Most of them spent their loot on wine, women, and song,”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“No matter how miserable it may be, one’s own home is a haven. To step through the door, drop into a familiar chair, and sleep in one’s own bed is vastly comfortable. It is an escape from the world outside. It represents safety, security. Once inside the door, one can lay down the burdens of the world and relax. In a larger sense, our three-dimensional”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“Could”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa: A Novel

“There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa: A Novel

“We accept the familiar and the usual. We are comfortable with it. We do not want our nice three-dimensional world shattered. We enjoy our certainty, and even Einstein shied from the erratic world of the quantum theory. It suggested a chaos with which he was not prepared to deal.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa: A Novel

“Sure as you tell somethin’ to one person, they will tell somebody else, an’ warn them not to tell. Of course, they do.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“When little is known, much is imagined.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“In his study there was an atlas, and he could open it to maps of any land on earth. He could put a finger on Afghanistan, or point out where the Mitanni had lived, or to the site of Babylon, and even to Three Dragon Pass. All that was real. What he did not wish to discover was that between any two numbered pages, 357 and 358 for instance, there were an infinite number of worlds of which he knew nothing.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa: A Novel