Dystopian quotes

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◆ Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

- Veronica Roth100

◆ They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.

- Tahereh Mafi99

◆ They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should be the end. Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body. The sin against the body - it was for that they wept in chief; the centuries of wrong against the muscles and the nerves, and those five portals by which we can alone apprehend - glozing it over with talk of evolution, until the body was white pap, the home of ideas as colourless, last sloshy stirrings of a spirit that had grasped the stars.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ Friends are just enemies you don't know enough about.

- Jeremy Davies99

◆ I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

- Shannon A. Thompson99

◆ You attack to protect, not to avenge. You strike to end suffering, not cause it.

- Tiana Dalichov99

◆ I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

- Shannon A. Thompson99

◆ The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my purity.

- Celeste Simone99

◆ Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

- Shannon A. Thompson99

◆ A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy's body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches. His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth.

- James Dashner99

◆ Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

- Shannon A. Thompson99

◆ I'm beginning to like the dark. It surrounds me, blanketing me in a soft, protective embrace that hides me from the suspicious stares I have to endure during the day. - from my yet-to-be-released book, 'Descent', book three in the 'Forgotten Origins Trilogy

- Tara Ellis99

◆ Julia, there's nothing up there but sand and salt. Everything in the world is worn out or broken. But there are still beautiful things. Little things. Unimportant things. But they're important to me.

- Aron Christensen99