Philip Pullman Quotes

181 quotes in 2513 categories

• Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
• I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character…
• ...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature…
• I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-…
• Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what…
• I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the…
• The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became…
• When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
• If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
• You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
• We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
• All good things pass away.
• Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those…
• The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.…
• ...because where we are is always the most important place.
• Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and…
• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the…
• We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Browse Philip Pullman Quotes by Category