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One Quotes by Steven Erikson
- Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold…
- More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers,…
- A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in…
- The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
- Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?' The Imass shrugged before replying. 'I think of futility, Adjunct.' 'Do all Imass think about futility?' 'No. Few…
- War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else.…
- The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.
- Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow,…
- One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
- So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at…
- The lesson of history is that no one learns.
- Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live…
- It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
- The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.
- Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places,…
- I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so…
- When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
- Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle