Dark Age Quotes

“Well, here I am, you deviant bitch. Here I bloody am. The motherfucking consequence.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“There will dawn a day when these hostile hours, these days of hatred and violence, seem the faintest of memories, but dark and steep and long is the road up out of hell. So do not tire, do not despair, do not abandon your brethren, and do not forget that through this darkness we and we alone carry the light of freedom. We must defend it with every cell in our bodies. If not now, when? If not us, who?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I no longer trust stillness. Stillness is the enemy taking careful aim.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I’ll never get used to seeing the fear Sevro wakes in people. Deep down they know Darrow is operating on a framework of logic. No one, not even me, believes that Sevro is completely sane.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“You will be hated and you will hate. You will love and be loved. You will fall and you will rise. Never will you know peace, but you will know joy.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Get him inside somewhere and keep that man alive.”
“Man?” Screwface laughs. “Hic est Lupus, motherfucker.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“During war, the laws are silent.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“The man is broke, but he is not allowed to break.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I continue to exists, only because with existence there is still hope.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“But that is the noble lie of demokracy, isn’t it? The belief in humanity, even though humanity is a screaming, selfish mob. I love humans, truly. But humanity …” She shivers.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“There’s never a right call, just people who make the hard ones.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Fear is the torrent. The raging river. To fight it is to break and drown. But to stand astride it is to see it, feel it, and use its course for your own whims.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Matter, how tiny my share Time, how brief my allotment Fate, how small my roll to play Self, all that can be mastered”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“I hope you loved and loathed this story. I hope you read into the early morning, well past any reasonable hour, and that you come along with me for the conclusion of this little tale, and many more that are yet to be written.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Love may give one wings, but everything burns when it flies too close to the sun.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“But you don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through its teeth.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Laughter spews from between my teeth. I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age