30 quotes found
“Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be”
“The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.”
“Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.”
“what your life means depends on how you tell the story.”
“…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.”
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."-Vergere”
“Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because jus...”
“No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain”
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.Now he begins to understand: because pain is a godhe has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakins death. But it is also a teacher, a...”
“Every time a horse let you up onto its back, its giving you its life. Every time.”
“And so, here at the end of days, you are as youve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit”
“Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into ...”
“A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers.One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old bef...”
“His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her, far away, alone in her apartment in the dark, a hand that felt the silken softness of her skin a...”
“I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.”
“The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your ch...”
“The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen...”
“Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you cant ...”
“I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.”
“... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic d...”
“Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.”
“Thats what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.”
“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want?...”
