Siberian Vampire > Siberian's Quotes

“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
― Will Smith

“There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it."
"Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
― Epictetus

“Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food.
Bella could not live without stories.
Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.
You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“For writers who knowingly lie, for those who substitute unbelievable human behavior for the way people really act, I have nothing but contempt. Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do—to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
…The people in these stories are not without hope, but they acknowledge that even our fondest hopes (and our fondest wishes for our fellowmen and the society in which we live) may sometimes be vain. Often, even. But I think they also say that nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing… and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“1922 had been the worst year of my life, one where I’d turned into a man I no longer knew...”
― Stephen King, 1922

“Did you know that could happen? Did you know you could sit in front of the screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn't last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it's awesome. It's everything, because you can have things the way you want. And I want you to still be alive. In the story you are, and always will be.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“I felt like hell the next morning. My hands were sore, my arms were sore, my legs were sore, and my back was sore. Aside from that I was fine.”
― Steve Hamilton, Blood is the Sky

“Claims of innocence mean nothing: they serve only to prove a foolish lack of caution.’
– Judge Traggat, Selected Sayings, Vol. III, Chapter IV”
― John French, Divination

“He placed a gloved hand on Vikram’s shoulder. “There are worms at the world’s heart, coiled at the seats of earthly power like a manifold tumor that has awoken to its own hunger and craves more. There may be many worms or only one that manifests as many, or perhaps myriad strands of the One True Wyrm, but it equates to the same misery. The parasites feed, grow, and spread in Mankind’s wake, infesting new worlds through the blood, sweat, and fears of their hosts, leaving us enough to survive and occasionally even prosper, but only ever in service to the sickness we bear.”
Vikram was staring straight ahead, his teeth gritted and his fists clenched. He realized he was nodding along to the tale. Worms? Yes, that was the right name for them. Why hadn’t he found it himself?
“Our masters probably delight in cruelty, for that has been the most constant thread in human history,” Niemand continued, “yet it is possible they imagine themselves equitable, benevolent even. Have they not driven Mankind to survive, strive, and conquer with a ferocity its foes cannot match? Would there be a union of faiths and nations without the invisible coils binding us to a common cause? Would we have seized the stars without their hunger to drive us?’ Would we have endured at all?” Niemand’s voice dropped to a whisper. “Perhaps worms are the gods we deserve.”
“No,” Vikram rasped. His eyes met Skaadi’s and found a rage that mirrored his own. “No,” he repeated, fiercely this time.
“No,” Niemand agreed. “Never. We will raise our own gods—or better yet, do without them.”
― Peter Fehervari

“You can’t just run away when things aren’t going well. The Emperor has His plan for all of us. By denying it, you are at the risk of heresy, and we’ll all be held accountable.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“Everyone is a kind of story that they tell themselves.”
― Guy Haley, Flesh and Steel

“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often”
― King, Stephen, ’Salem’s Lot

“Sometimes I think I’m dead to horror, but then some new abomination steps up to the challenge and shoves the truth down my throat: horror can never be sated and no man will ever be allowed his fill. There is always more and worse to come.”
― Peter Fehervari, Fire Caste

“‘Who are you to say that I may not sit at this hearth? Am I not as you? Did we not once break bread, laugh, bleed and weep together? Am I not the one who set off into the world at your side till paths and time set our steps towards different suns? Am I not returned to this place called home, weary with time and the weight of the sword? Is the only rest you would give me that of the bed of knives? Shall we not sit and talk and remember that once we were brothers?’
– from the Voice of the Stones, pre-unification Terra, exact era and author unknown”
― John French, Cthonia's Reckoning

“But what was a scar, really? Neither evidence of defeat, nor a medal of triumph. A scar was nothing more than a mark to show that a warrior faced his enemies at all times, never once showing his back.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Butcher's Nails

“Faith was cheap, for the desperate. It was only valuable for those with the strength to understand its purpose.”
― Chris Wraight

“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfed and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The first steps of damnation are always wrapped in the costume of piety.”
― John French, The Absolution of Swords

“If you allow cracks to appear in glass, then you should not be surprised when it breaks and bloodies you.”
― Rachel Harrison, Execution

“Words and poetic sentiment did not change the truth of a thing. A kill was a kill, a life a life, and an executioner a murderer by any other name.”
― Andy Smillie, Gabriel Seth: The Flesh Tearer

“As I said, be careful from whom one gains knowledge and be aware of the price of its acquisition.”
― gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Presence of mind in all things, I counsel. Be aware of thyself before all else.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“There must come a moment when the soul knows: this far, and no further. But we are cursed never to hear that warning until it is too late.’
– attributed to the remembrancer Ignace Karkasy [M31]”
― James Swallow, Garro: Knight Of Grey

“You see how easy it is to go from having everything to having nothing?”
― James Luceno, Tarkin

“Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?”
― David Zindell, Neverness