H.W. Charles Quotes

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respe

some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Never say never

the gods play nofavorites.

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.

the worst thing, " he told me, "is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.

where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)