Quotes About Extence

#1. I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

Gavin Extence

#2. I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible.

Gavin Extence

#3. What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Hannah Arendt

#4. Fucking hell, Woods!' squealed Decker. 'You really are retarded!' Or he squealed something similar. I was no longer listening. He now held the book aloft and was waving it around like the monkey with the bone at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Gavin Extence

#5. I was half expecting it, but it still came as kind of a shock when the barrier stayed down. It's funny how some things can be so mixed up like that.

Gavin Extence

#6. All these thoughts drifted like clouds through the virtual space of my mind's eye - tiny electrical and chemical signals that combined to create an entire world - but then, after a while, everything just kind of melted away. All that was left was a calm blue void. I felt very happy.

Gavin Extence

#7. Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Bruce Catton

#8. Not all scars are bad, Alex. Some are worth hanging on to ...

Gavin Extence

#9. I tapped on the door, with all the power of a farting flea.

Gavin Extence

#10. Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Gavin Extence

#11. it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less.

David Lagercrantz

#12. Music dispels misery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.

Gavin Extence

#14. Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That's all we can do.

Gavin Extence

#15. The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story.

Gavin Extence

#16. You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.

Don McLean

#17. Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to another person was something else entirely. That would make it TOO real.

Gavin Extence

#18. The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Rollo May

#19. In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record.

Gavin Extence

#20. Sometimes words aren't needed.

Gavin Extence

#21. We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

Elizabeth Fishel

#22. Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

Gavin Extence

#23. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.

Gavin Extence

#24. I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?'
Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy name, but I could tell his curiosity was piqued.
'The Secular Church of Kurt Vonnegut,' I said.
'Jesus F Christ,' said Mr Peterson.

Gavin Extence

#25. Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

Gavin Extence

#26. The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

Lenny Kravitz

#27. Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Barack Obama

#28. In life, there are no true beginnings or endings.

Gavin Extence

#29. I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Alfredo Stroessner

#30. I take references from the past and flip them.

Theophilus London

#31. As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

Jada Pinkett Smith