13 Quotes by Derek Raymond

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it’ll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

It’s wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he’s having getting along with himself.