Quotes by Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

Spirit

Suicide

Thinking

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

Action

Self

Way

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

Desire

People

Progress

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Caught

Caught Up

Legends

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

Light

Memories

Self

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn’t hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

Mess

World

Would Be

He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don’t you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

Men

Morning

Writing

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. 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.

Book

Men

Mind

I think we’re yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don’t believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it’s because we haven’t been able to understand it yet.

Able

Believe

Thinking

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I’ve written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. … Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

Book

Dream

Thinking

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Action

Believe

Blood

Book

Caught

Caught Up

Condemnation

Crosses

Desire

Details

Divorce

Dream

Edges

Feelings

Fundamentals

Hands

Harsh

Heart

Height

Ifs

Jagged Edge

Legends

Light

Long

Majority

Memories

Men

Mess

Mind

Morning

Normalcy

Office

Our Love

Our World

People

Profound

Progress

Real

Reality

Satisfaction

Seems

Self

Sobriety

Soul

Spirit

Stories

Suicide

Survival

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Quotes by Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn’t hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. 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.

I think we’re yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don’t believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it’s because we haven’t been able to understand it yet.

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I’ve written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. … Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

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