7 Quotes by Guy Endore

I have no money," I said severely, "and I have no time. I am busy!""Busy with what?" she asked innocently."Why my dear child, do you see all these books?

Here's my watch. If I wind it, it marks time. It exists. It is alive. If the spring breaks, it stops. It no longer marks the hour. It is dead. Time does not exist for it. Same with you, when your main spring is gone.

We must all die. There’s nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire – you don’t wish any such fate for your beloved.

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

There are such ships, there are such logs in the swamps of our minds, and they rise to the surface of our thoughts for a moment, only to sink again. There are such ships sunk in the wastes of our lives. The years have washed over them. They are forgotten. And yet they rise, ghosts of a past that is ended. They float before us for a while to our own great astonishment, then they settle down again and are as if they never existed.

But there was a strange shame here that he could not overcome. Oh, the terrible disgrace, the ignominy of it – possessing a mythical monster in one’s own family, in this age of science and enlightenment!

Why should this one wolf be shut up for an individual crime, when mass crimes go unpunished? When all society can turn into a wolf and be celebrated with fife and drum and with flags curling in the wind? Why then shouldn’t this dog have his day too?