The Man Who Watched the World End Quotes

“Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Maybe that’s why I get frustrated sometimes, because there’s no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn’t change any of the things I’ve done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there’s also no satisfaction in where I am.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what’s happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it’s out of their control.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“It’s amazing how much one person can stand if there are only small changes from one day to the next.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“The bat I had with me would do little good against a pack of feral house cats, let alone a pack of Dalmatians or Labradors.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“the power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“The end is imminent, I know that, but the power of mankind has always been in overlooking the finality of things and holding onto optimism even when doing so seems foolish.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“There always had to be a survivor. Maybe this simply spoke to the optimism of the men writing those screenplays; even with an uncomfortable sci fi plot they had to subconsciously comfort themselves by thinking that at least a hundred people would survive.
Someone has to survive”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“How painful it is to get older. Not just in my joints and my bad back, but in the knowledge of all the things I could once do that I no longer can.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“If these same people were evacuating from a building during a fire alarm I would have surely joined them, so why did I sit idly by as they left this neighborhood?”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Whereas the cats, the court jesters of the community, came up short in their attempt, the dog was successful in its try.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“every living thing was one step away from being eaten by something else.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“The other day I saw a pack of house cats that must have been fifty or sixty strong.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“The animals are the last orchestra the world will know.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“the world’s post-war population was always back up to pre-war numbers within nine months—nine fun months—of soldiers returning home.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“My mom used to tell me the Blocks appeared because there were too many people on the planet. “The world has a way of restoring its natural order. Earth was never supposed to have this many people.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Times Square doesn’t exist anymore; New York was vacated more than twenty years ago,”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“more and more people became unreasonably afraid of not being near enough people.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“They were completely wrong: there were never any riots, there were no wars.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“The fear-mongerers were already calling for the end of the world,”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“All those doomsday movies had it wrong the entire time.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“eight teams in the American League and eight in the National League.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“the youngest players were in their late forties. Most teams had a handful of players in their fifties.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“One of the boxes I found today was of the last set of Topps cards ever produced. There were no rookie cards in that last set.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“If my house is a prison, the animals are my jailers.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“When you go without many people to talk to, you start forgetting what you really feel.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“Life has a funny sense of humor to give me the safe but nothing worth putting in it.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End

“the Blocks were loaded into a stadium that was then burned to the ground.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Man Who Watched the World End