Hunters & Collectors Quotes

“God, how I hate the future. It’s a cult. A tyranny of progress. And anyone who speaks against it is shunned. But all tyrannies must efficiently erase the past if they’re to work. I like the past. The past was solid, simple, and real. The rooms were large, the food was good, and we knew who our enemies were. I feel misty for old tyrannies. The ones which beat you, enslaved you, tried to break your spirit, and in doing so gave your life the only enhancement it really needs: a sense of purpose. The tyranny of the future doesn’t take away our choices; it swamps us in them. It doesn’t curb our freedoms; it tube-feeds us with them until we rupture like neglected factory geese.”
― Matt Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“Gladys, darling, light of my life. There are principles higher than mere survival. It’s not enough to live this life; there must be a quality to living. There are minimum standards. If a man can’t get an upgrade when almost every other guest in the entire hotel has been brutally murdered, then something is wrong.”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“Remember when you were young? … Remember when you weren’t just a ghost who changes faces to suit the weather, or a strange device used by others to manufacture their happiness?”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“To me the greatest possible horror is not that humanity might end, but that our Empire of Stupidity might last forever.”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“Then to Misty's Spice Boutique for food so bland and inambitious I doubt it'll ever aspire to become shit. It'll probably just sit in my colon yawning”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“But anything which reveals itself in words is just a truth committing suicide.”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“That’s the real tragedy. I’ve come to see that what we had was better than that pitiful and pitiless intoxication they call love. It is the joy you have to truly know someone. To know another person as well as you know yourself, and to be happy to be unhappy in their company. To fall in love with someone you have to be blinded to their truth. It’s easy to fall for fantasies. But to know someone, and to want to know them, is truly the deepest honour we have as beings. To know another is a sacred duty.”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“I've lost everything, and by losing it I've gained the world.”
― M. Suddain, Hunters & Collectors

“I feel misty for old tyrannies. The ones which beat you, enslaved you, tried to break your spirit, and in doing so gave your life the only enhancement it really needs: a sense of purpose. The tyranny of the future doesn’t take away our choices; it swamps us in them. It doesn’t curb our freedoms; it tube-feeds us with them until we rupture like neglected factory geese.”
― Matt Suddain, Hunters & Collectors