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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f8cae9 | Genuine modesty looks best on the genuinely important. | Richard Christian Matheson | ||
| 29e6d0e | Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures. | life society | Richard Matheson | |
| d77921b | He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don't you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don't you shut the hell up? he thought. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 340fd40 | the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there. | Richard Christian Matheson | ||
| f3ff440 | This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation. | courage praise | Richard Matheson | |
| 4fc1553 | That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me--that dark fire, that music ... | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0a3aa65 | Todos volvieron hacia Neville los rostros palidos. Neville los observo serenamente. Y de pronto comprendio. Yo soy el anormal ahora. La normalidad es un concepto mayoritario. Norma de muchos, no de un solo hombre. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2b6fde7 | Well, why not? Why go out? It was a sure way to be free of them. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 10f5ede | The red hands had stopped at four-twenty-seven. He wondered what day they had stopped. As he descended the stairs with his armful of books, he wondered at just what moment the clock stopped. Had it been morning or night? Was it raining or shining? Was anyone there when it stopped? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 4c3ea40 | The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him." Thank you, Dr. Van Helsing, he thought, putting down his copy of Dracula." -- | Richard Matheson | ||
| fff9f4b | Don't families stay together?" "Not necessarily," he told me. "Earth ties have less meaning here. Relationships of thought, not blood, are what count." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 7a34e4b | It's at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple. | Richard Matheson | ||
| b6b0011 | Even though they fought, their fighting never turned them against each other. It always ended with them embracing and kissing, smiling, laughing. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 10fa7a8 | Why should a Jew fear the cross?" he said. "Why should a vampire who had been a Jew fear it? Most people were afraid of becoming vampires. Most of them suffer from hysterical blindness before mirrors. But as far as the cross goes--well, neither a Jew nor a Hindu nor a Mohammedan nor an atheist, for that matter, would fear the cross." She" | Richard Matheson | ||
| cc366d2 | All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 60ddfda | It was not my pain but Ann's. She was crying, frightened. Because I was hurt. She was afraid for me. I felt her anguish. She was suffering terribly. I tried to will away the shadows but I couldn't. Tried in vain to speak her name. Don't cry, I thought. I'll be all right. Don't be afraid. I love you, Ann. Where are you? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 5b67768 | Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism? | Richard Matheson | ||
| f0fa86a | He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. | Richard Matheson | ||
| d4e2248 | The origin of the word "body" is the Anglo-Saxon "bodig" meaning abode. Which is what the physical body is, you see, Robert. A transient dwelling for the real self." | Richard Matheson | ||
| a2f2242 | Last lines: Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. A coughing chuckle filled his throat. He turned and leaned against the wall while he swallowed the pills. Full circle, he thought while the final lethargy crept into his limbs. Full circle.. | final-lines i-am-legend | Richard Matheson | |
| d7cea25 | He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn't care to admit that the inference had any validity. She just happened to be the first one he's come across, that was all. What about the man in the living room, though? For God's sake! he flared back. I'm not going to rape the woman! Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginn.. | ethic harassment instinct morality rape right-and-wrong sexual-desire society | Richard Matheson | |
| 13e5fab | Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 09214e6 | From that day on he learned to accept the dungeon he existed in, neither seeking to escape with sudden derring-do nor beating his pate bloody on its walls. And, thus resigned, he returned to work. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0aca2e3 | The death of someone with whom a person has been long and closely associated leaves a literal vacuum in that person's life, | Richard Matheson | ||
| 5a7ddbc | And to kill one's self is to violate the law because it deprives that self of working out the needs of its life. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 55c23af | They spoke, at length, about the realms "above" this one. Levels at which the progressing soul becomes at one with God--formless, independent of time and substance though still aware of personal identity." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 5f3fae3 | Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul, lovie - is the vampire so bad? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 82b8ced | There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life he'd been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague's last victim, nine since he's spoken to another human being, ten since Virginia had died. Here he was with no future and a virtually hopeless present. Still plodding on. Instinct? Or was he just stupid? Too unimaginative to destroy himself? Why hadn't he done it in the begi.. | instinct life life-force meaning-of-life nature purpose reasoning suicide survival survive thought | Richard Matheson | |
| 25c5329 | Send her loving thoughts," he told me. "That's all?" "That's quite a lot, Chris," he said. "Thoughts are very real." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 09a5ea5 | For everything in life, there's a counterpart in afterlife. This includes the most beautiful as well as the ugliest of phenomena. | Richard Matheson | ||
| a8925bc | If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| d072036 | Killingsworth MA, Gilbert DT. A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science. 2010;330:932. SS Harvard Business Review. Jan-Feb 2012:88. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4892f83 | not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already is. Then, in that moment at least, we are already free, ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding -- not always as we think it should, but definitely as it is. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 94850be | On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| baf9bca | It's not that God, the environment, and other people cannot help us to be happy or find satisfaction. It's just that our happiness, satisfaction, and our understanding, even of God, will be no deeper than our capacity to know ourselves inwardly, to encounter the world from the deep comfort that comes from being at home in one's own skin, from an intimate familiarity with the ways of one's own mind and body. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 08c7a96 | In fact, even if distraction does alleviate your pain or help to cope with it some of the time, bringing mindfulness to it can lead to new levels of insight and understanding about yourself and your body, which distraction and escape can never do. Understanding and insight, of course, are an extremely important part of the process of coming to terms with your condition and really learning how to live with it, not just endure it. One of the .. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 6b87183 | We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is. | limitations mindfulness | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 1349dc0 | It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 31e5ced | It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 9c99c87 | It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind." | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 6103e5b | If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 6a20868 | Breathe and let be. [...] [G]ive yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 746c57c | It helps to have a focus for your attention, an anchor line to tether you to the present moment and to guide you back when the mind wanders. The breath serves this purpose exceedingly well. It can be a true ally. Bringing awareness to our breathing, we remind ourselves that we are here now, so we might as well be fully awake for whatever is already happening. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4040e07 | We are not meditating to make anything go away, any more than we are meditating to attain some special state or feeling. Whether we are basically healthy at the moment or have a terminal illness, none of us knows how long we have to live. | Jon Kabat-Zinn |