Anticlimactic Quotes

#1. The Mormons had been planning to run the human race's first extrasolar colony from a place that would have been equally at home as an accounting office. It felt anticlimactic. Hello, welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star! Here's your cubicle.

James S.A. Corey

#2. THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,

Laurie R. King

#3. Real life is always quieter and anticlimactic somehow. But devastating all the same.

Courtney Summers

#4. There was something distinctly anticlimactic about trying to save the world.

Annette Marie

#5. He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

Lev Grossman

#6. I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.

Tana French

#7. ...I have always had an excellent brake system, a gift for choosing the anticlimactic over the irrevocable every time.

Jana French

#8. You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.'
'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.

Chelsea Cain

#9. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#10. The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.

Richard Dawkins

#11. My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Louise Bourgeois

#12. I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

Ricky Skaggs

#13. What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Michel Faber

#14. Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Audrey Hepburn

#15. Neat little boys in neat little shirts, so earnest and wholesome, but hidden underneath their faces were old hags, skin pitted with acid.

Mariam Petrosyan

#16. We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

Sophie Swetchine

#17. Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.

Jared Leto

#18. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

L.M. Montgomery