Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word...Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish? - Henry, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“You speak of eternal life. You speak of indulging the mind and body,” said Abe. “But what of the soul?”

“And what use is a soul to a creature that shall never die?”

Abe couldn’t help but smile. Here was a strange little man with a strange way of seeing things. Only the second living man he’d ever met who knew the truth of vampires. He drank to excess and spoke in an irritating, high-​pitched voice. It was hard not to like him.

“I begin to suspect,” said Abe, “that you would like to be one of them.”

Poe laughed at the suggestion. “Is not our existence long and miserable enough?” he asked, laughing. “Who in God’s name would seek to prolong it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“some men are just too interesting to die”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead. I have read of those sent to the gallows and guillotines of Europe. I have read of the great war of ages past and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to such deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. But in doing so, we forget that they were each as alive as we, and the one length of rope - or bullet - or blade, took the whole of their lives in that one, fragile instant. Took their earliest days as swaddled infants, and their grayest unfulfilled futures. When one think of how many souls have suffered this fate in all of history - of the untold murders of untold men, women and children.. it is too much to bear.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“This is one hell of a suicide note.

THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the deed to do,
And this the place to do it;
The heart I'll rush a dagger through
Though I in hell should rue it!

Sweet steel! Come forth from out your sheath,
And glist'ning, speak your powers;
Rip up the organs of my breath,
And draw my blood in showers!

I strike! It quivers in that heart
Which drives me to this end;
I draw and kiss the bloody dart,
My last-my only friend!”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“I think common-looking people are the best in the world. That's why the Lord makes so many of them.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants. But you...you were born to fight tyranny.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter