56 Quotes by John C. Wright

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

This world is behind enemy lines. Secret powers rule it. But they don’t want to kill us with bombs or knives. They want even worse for us. They want to kill the better part of us, the part that hopes. Illnesses and accidents are weapons in their hands, weapons of despair, meant to turn our thoughts down and down to dark and dismal paths.

In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. – The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183.

The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

War is fundamental. A man’s views on war tell you the basic axioms of his view on life.

I can’t wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person.

Pain has a funny way of focusing the mind. Only what hurts matters.

A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.