83 Quotes by K.J. Parker

We live in a miserable world, where the best we can honestly hope for is that one empty, meaningless day will follow another without things getting actively worse.

It’s like – all right, supposing there’s a fire. What do you do? You grab everyone and everything you can and you get the hell out of there. You don’t agonise about letting the fire win. Staying alive doesn’t make you the fire’s accomplice.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Being dead is bad enough. Being dead and still having to walk around and eat is so much worse.

A wise man once said, it’s not the despair that destroys you, it’s the hope.

And oftentimes, to bring us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

If there’s a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

He could feel himself sliding into sleep, there was a dream already open and waiting for him to fall into it.