--- title: "1 Damaged goods Quotes By Whitley Strieber" description: "1 Damaged goods quotes by Whitley Strieber. Plus more from Whitley Strieber and more Damaged goods sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1e/whitley-strieber-23318_abraham-lincoln_the-old-world-was-destroyed-because-of-i_2753590.jpg" --- > [“The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/the-old-world-was-destroyed-because-of-its-own-greed-and/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1e/whitley-strieber-23318_abraham-lincoln_the-old-world-was-destroyed-because-of-i_2753590.jpg) ## More by Whitley Strieber > [“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/whomever-or-whatever-the-visitors-are-their-activities-go-far-beyond/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [A real stunner. Want to get swept up on a journey you will never forget and never quite escape? Open THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/a-real-stunner-want-to-get-swept-up-on-a-journey-you-will-never/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [“I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/i-think-he-s-wonderful-and-strange-and-kind-of-like-a-poem/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/in-them-was-not-the-savage-blankness-of-the-reptile-species-instead/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/everytime-someone-ends-a-prayer-in-the-western-world-they-say-amen/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/i-became-entirely-given-over-to-extreme-dread-the-fear-was-so/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/i-put-the-copy-of-a-christmas-carol-that-my-grandfather-had-first/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/in-a-reality-made-of-energy-thoughts-may-literally-be-things-what-if/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/i-wondered-if-i-might-not-be-in-the-grip-of-demons-if-they-were-not/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/why-were-my-visitors-so-secretive-hiding-themselves-behind-my/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/the-upheavals-of-adolescence-silenced-a-christmas-carol-for-a-few/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/no-doubt-i-wont-be-believed-and-thats-all-right-because-in-a-sense-it/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [“This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/this-time-there-was-the-ghost-of-a-reptile-in-szatson-s-smile-i-don-t/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [“If I look into the wings, I can see Mom standing like a statue, Medea or Lady Macbeth, one of those tragic horrors, her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/if-i-look-into-the-wings-i-can-see-mom-standing-like-a-statue-medea/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) > [I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitley-strieber/i-m-not-so-sure-that-horror-should-be-dismissed-as-something-less/) [Whitley Strieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitley-strieber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damaged-goods/whitley-strieber/#itemlist", "name": "1 Damaged goods Quotes By Whitley Strieber", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. 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