💬 Quotes

"Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different."

"He was a chemical reaction, and he was also a machine, and he was also a being with free will, and he was also a soul."

"I am approaching my fiftieth birthday... I am cleansing and renewing myself for the very different years to come."

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

"Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?"

"It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good."

"I look at the natural instincts of animals as being more or less analogous to habits, which have become hereditary, but which do not require the exercise of the will."

"We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only see that the forms of life are now different from what they formerly were."

"Variability is not a principle; it is merely a term used to express the observation that offspring differ from their parents and from each other."

"How is it that you can be so miserable and so happy at the same time? It’s a paradox, Wanderer. It’s life."

"I’m not a person. I’m a consciousness. I’m a soul. I’m a parasite."

"You don't know me. You only know the body I'm wearing."

"If I am the last of my kind, then I am the only one who can remember them. I am the keeper of their history."

"We are two souls in one body. We are a contradiction. We are a miracle."

"The people I love are worth the danger. They are worth everything."

"A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain."

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point when he should have surrendered."

"If you can take it, you can make it."

"The ocean was not only a setting for the story, but a character itself—a vast, indifferent, and lethal adversary."

"He knew that if he ran out of hope, he would die. He had to keep his mind occupied, even if it was just by reciting recipes or planning the future."