Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 3

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

Bite me, faerie fruitcake.

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.