The Hauntings of Playing God Quotes

“Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“She has no idea what she really believes.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Everyone wants something miraculous to have faith in.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Maybe life doesn’t start the first time you smile and end the last time something makes you happy. Maybe it isn’t defined by the first and last time you believe in something greater than yourself. Maybe life isn’t measured in heartbeats or curiosity or even in acts of love. Maybe life is whatever you make of it.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“be with you. And you’ll always be with us. Maybe we won’t have another life, maybe we won’t have some kind of conscious afterlife in the clouds, but that doesn’t change what actually happened here. It doesn’t change that you did your best with the life you had. Maybe we won’t all be gathered in heaven. Maybe we won’t all be reincarnated as birds. But somewhere, somehow, the memory of you caring for us, all the times we’ve shared, of the people you loved before you arrived here, all of it will live on. Maybe it will only live on in diaries or in pictures, but maybe the essence of what you did here, of one person trying to care for everyone as much as she knew how, maybe that will live on forever in another form.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“I can guarantee you that whatever is next, it won’t be like anything you’ve been taught. How would those people know what’s next if they haven’t been there yet?”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Whatever happens next, there won’t be some fiery pit or some eternal damnation. The same guys that created that concept are the same guys that want you to feel guilty all your life.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Guilt is a mechanism to control you, not to make you a better person.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“The way you remember things is much more important than how they actually end up.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Is life measured by the amount of times you feel in control of your future and the amount of times you feel powerless?”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Maybe life is all about how you feel at the end of each day versus how you felt when you first woke up.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“No god is that spiteful.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Was that where the very first belief in an afterlife came from, from someone unhappy with their place in the world? If that is what the belief was founded on, she thinks, the likelihood of going to heaven doesn’t look very promising—things do not exist merely because you wish them to.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“The clock says it’s four in the morning, but it’s better to start moving than to stay in bed and think about never waking up again.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“What child wants the pressure of knowing they exist for a single reason and it’s up to them to find it?”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“All of life, everything on Earth, has been made possible because of that orange circle in the sky. That should never be taken for granted. But sadly, it is.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Maybe life starts with your first fantasy, ends with your last fantasy, and is measured by all of the hopes and dreams in between.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Not even the wisest man knows the future.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“I thought you had everything figured out. I thought you knew true peace.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“You know, desire is the cause of all unhappiness.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“She has seen more death than a black-masked hangman or an executioner’s axe.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“You know, desire is nothing but the search for pleasure, and fear is nothing but the memory of pain. Both lead to suffering. And the Blocks are free of both.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Words would make everything better. But she cannot speak.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Maybe life begins the first time you understand the magnitude of suffering around you, and ends the last time you witness that sorrow.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“Maybe life starts the first time you understand your own limitations and is measured by the ways you exceed those boundaries.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“His audience is dead. What remains is a group of impostors that resemble an audience. So very unfair.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“It took the emergence of humans that couldn’t do anything for themselves for everyone else in the world to stop killing each other. Anything else—rampant disease, enlightenment toward a higher consciousness—had failed to be enough for people to stop blowing each other up.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“I’m trying my best. What more can I do? I’m trying my best.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God

“She wants to believe in something, she just isn’t sure what.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Hauntings of Playing God