Death Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can…

— Philip K. Dick

“Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...”

— Jean Baudrillard

“Words that promote hate, destruction and chaos are tilted toward the dark core of existence.”

— Lee Vickers

“Tragedy shapes us, but it does not have to define us.”

— Susan Van Volkenburgh

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And this happened to be a bizarre age, a strange time when great numbers of people believed every manipulative junk-science claim, dreading armageddons of…

— Dean Koontz

“Detritus, that's the word. The awful accumulation of wrong decisions, improper terms. You scrape away the excrescences of history...and maybe you get down to…

— James A. Michener

“Perhaps I am the victim of some mysterious political, religious or financial machination—some vast and shadowy plot, whose ramifications are so obscure as to…

— Anna Kavan

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to…

— Jean Ferris