Night of the Aurochs Quotes

“Death is sleep without knowledge of the pleasure of life.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“We stumble into our graves knowing so well how to have done better.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The worst criminals on earth are those who toy with love.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“I jump to my feet in this dream within a dream. Although I am quite dry, I discover that the trees of the forest in which I have slept stand rooted in water. Beyond them, at the forest's edge, stretches a tarn. From the steely face of the tarn rises a mist, and there, where the mist swirls thickest, shimmering like a pale column risen from its depths, dripping tarn water and rotted rose petals, stands Gunther.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The sun in its slow descent filtered great cathedral-moats of gold through latticed boughs of pine and birch and maple. It was that time of day- or afternoon- when the forest's breath, sun-stunned, yearning for night, impalpably swoons to the slow pulsations of blood and time and silence.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“The terror of a void is not that it is nothing but that it is something. It is real and—unendurable.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

“How does a bird feel when it dies? A fish, a bug...the infinite worm? I think it weeps.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs