Quotes by Beck

“At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?”

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

“I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.”

“This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.”

“I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panni...”

“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.”

“We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.”

“They swallowed, tasted their tongues, sucked their lips, and there was a far-away look in their eyes. Mack peered into his empty glass as though some holy message were written in the bottom. And th...”

“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”

“There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more s...”

“... and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.”

“You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.”

“In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental ac...”

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he wa...”

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves”

“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.”

“When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."”

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.”

“Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.”

“In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.”