Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Reasons are for peasants.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

All true stories end in death.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.

Only human, after all.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."-Vergere

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain