Best Richard Matheson Quotes
- That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you… Alcohol
- After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. Deepest
- The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. Been
- If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake… All
- (After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire… Across
- Now when I die, I shall only be dead. Dead
- Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk") All
- We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… Anymore
- I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the… Advance
- God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless… Act
- Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires,… Abruptly
- A man could get used to anything if he had to. Get Used
- Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. Concept
- And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. Caught
- He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s… All
- That which you believe becomes your world Becomes
- No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. Crusoe
- How long did it take for a past to die? Die
- Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is. Everyone
- I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about… Bizarre