Dystopian Quote by Helen Smith

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“He suddenly wonders if he's missed the really important things in Life in his search of really important things.”

— RayKIII

“Stupid things, in the end. Nonsensical. But stupid, nonsensical things were sometimes the most important.”

— wildbow

“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept…

— Colson Whitehead

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily…

— Arthur Phillips

“Everything that had happened was all part of the same great big something, it had to happen, I just knew”

— Steven Hall

“All moments matter. We just rarely know how important they are until the chance to act on them has already passed.”

— A.L. Jackson

“Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?”

— Jerry Spinelli

“…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss revealing them…

— P.D. James