Christopher Pike famous quotes

Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.
-- Christopher Pike

#Jesus #Hate #Heart

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
-- Christopher Pike

#Joy #Over You #Soul

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.
-- Christopher Pike

#Relationship #Nuts #Mad

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
-- Christopher Pike

#Sorrow #Desire

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
-- Christopher Pike

#Teacher #Giving #Would Be

‎When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.
-- Christopher Pike

#Judgement #Three #Done

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.
-- Christopher Pike

#Believe #Thieves #Right Time

I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.
-- Christopher Pike

#Jobs #Crazy #Book

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
-- Christopher Pike

#Heart #Sleep #Broken

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
-- Christopher Pike

#Hate #Heart #Differences

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
-- Christopher Pike

#Quiet #Reason #There Comes A Time

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.
-- Christopher Pike

#Light #White #Darkness

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.
-- Christopher Pike

#Imagine #Truth Is

The best art always comes unbidden.
-- Christopher Pike

#Art #Best Art

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
-- Christopher Pike

#Persistence #Keys #Mystery

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
-- Christopher Pike

#Strong #Light #Darkness

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.
-- Christopher Pike

#Apology #Years #Alive

They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.
-- Christopher Pike

#Stars #Memories #Wish

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.
-- Christopher Pike

#Pain #Constant

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.
-- Christopher Pike

#Answers #Pages #Lasts

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.
-- Christopher Pike

#Angry

You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.
-- Christopher Pike

#Sex #Dirty #Thinking

Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.
-- Christopher Pike

#Flower #Long #Sometimes

We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.
-- Christopher Pike

#Horrible

When you're in love it's beautiful. When you're not it's just dirty filthy sex. Loveless sex has no true spiritual meaning deep inside your soul. But love makes everything totally cool. Love is God's special gift to ***** teenage girls and boys. It makes them feel less guilty.
-- Christopher Pike

#Beautiful #Girl #Spiritual

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
-- Christopher Pike

#Wish #Illusion

I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives, and who dies.
-- Christopher Pike

#Party #Tired #Responsible

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.
-- Christopher Pike

#Glasses #Water #Devil

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
-- Christopher Pike

#Eye #Sight #Coward

In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being. I had always sat beside her. She was inside of me.
-- Christopher Pike

#God #Doubt #Sitting

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
-- Christopher Pike

#Happiness #World

People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.
-- Christopher Pike

#Thinking #People #Worry

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
-- Christopher Pike

#Men #Trying #World

We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.
-- Christopher Pike

#Past #Thinking #Long

Don’t be afraid, be terrified
-- Christopher Pike

Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Talking #Doe #Want

The hourglass runs low...
-- Christopher Pike

#Running #Lows #Hourglass

My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.
-- Christopher Pike

#Loving Him #Whole Life

As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.
-- Christopher Pike

#Blood #Thirsty #Dripping

People with power always take advantage of those without power.
-- Christopher Pike

#People #Advantage

Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Believe #Book #Grieving

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.
-- Christopher Pike

#Morning #Believe #Heart

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
-- Christopher Pike

#Vampire

The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.
-- Christopher Pike

#Dream #People #Expect Nothing

When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.
-- Christopher Pike

#Love You #Hatred #No Fear

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.
-- Christopher Pike

#Fear #Hate #Love You

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.
-- Christopher Pike

#Men #Forever #Desert

There is no time for grief; there never is.
-- Christopher Pike

#Grief

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
-- Christopher Pike

#Mean #Wealth #Immortality

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.
-- Christopher Pike

#Life Is #Ends #Born

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
-- Christopher Pike

#Quality #Earth #Faces

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
-- Christopher Pike

#Gossip #World #This World

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
-- Christopher Pike

#Memories #Tragedy

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Matter #Remember #I Am What I Am

The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.
-- Christopher Pike

#Dark #Light #Thieves

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business
-- Christopher Pike

#May #None Of Your Business

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
-- Christopher Pike

#Essence #Feelings #Events

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.
-- Christopher Pike

#Age #Problem #Destroying

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.
-- Christopher Pike

#Believe #Way #Life Is

Love me...I am not evil.
-- Christopher Pike

#Evil

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.
-- Christopher Pike

#Simple #Errors #Practice

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
-- Christopher Pike

#Want #Wanting To Die #Born

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
-- Christopher Pike

#Play #Stories #Wanted

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.
-- Christopher Pike

#Years #Making Love #Soul

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
-- Christopher Pike

#Thinking #Evil #May

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
-- Christopher Pike

#Moon #Air #Looks

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.
-- Christopher Pike

#Fear #Hate #Blessed

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
-- Christopher Pike

#Hair #Want #Cry

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.
-- Christopher Pike

#Judging #Would Be #Trials

I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Blood #Vampire #Doe

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
-- Christopher Pike

#Hate

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
-- Christopher Pike

#Tragedy #Mysterious #Moments

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
-- Christopher Pike

#Morning #Believe #Thinking

Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.
-- Christopher Pike

#Party #Pages #Remember

Thank you, Yoda. Feel the force, Luke.
-- Christopher Pike

#Force #Feels

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
-- Christopher Pike

#Giving #Hints #Advantage

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.
-- Christopher Pike

#Heart #Blood #Veins

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
-- Christopher Pike

#Pity

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
-- Christopher Pike

#Keys #Doors #Waiting

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
-- Christopher Pike

#Stars #Thinking #Civilization

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
-- Christopher Pike

#Men #Perfect

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.
-- Christopher Pike

#Vampire

Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
-- Christopher Pike

#Asking #Showers

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
-- Christopher Pike

#Ocean #Treasure #Illusion

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
-- Christopher Pike

#Wonder

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Girl #People #Want

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.
-- Christopher Pike

#Dark #Goal #Ironic

God is God. His name doesn't matter.
-- Christopher Pike

#Names #Matter