625 quotes found
“Pain makes people who they are.”
“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”
“If you don’t find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it”
“Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about...”
“I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.”
“People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a co...”
“We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.”
“The things that truly define me can’t be lost.”
“You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.”
“I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember...”
“It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.”
“But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle o...”
“I’m a magician with no magic, and that’s no one at all.”
“Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.”
“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I am face-to-face with a strang...”
“He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”
“When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.”
“An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.”
