Matthew Woodring Stover famous quotes

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Evil #Good And Evil

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Night #Light #Shining

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Believe #Book #Reading

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Dark #Winning #Light

Each of us is the sum of our scars.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Scar #Clarity

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Shoes #Way #Steps

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Pursuit Of Happiness #Civilization #Rights

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Sacrifice #Firsts #Welfare

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Chance #Life Is

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Smell #Hustle #World

All true stories end in death.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Stories #Ends #True Story

Reasons are for peasants.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Reason #Peasants

Only human, after all.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Humans

We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Two #Waiting #Answers

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Powerful #Enough #Metaphor

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Choices #Restraint

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Pain #Moving #Cracks

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Life #Stars #Heart

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Life #Stars #Love Is

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Teamwork #Team #Want

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Use #Truth Is

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Fighting #Civilization #Justice

... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Dust #Middle #Obscenity

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Bad Mood #Existentialism #Mood

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Dark #Winning #Light

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Men #Monsters #Found

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Lying

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Teacher #Differences #Students

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Solo #Uncertainty

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Knowing #Matter #Path

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Enough #Young #Stills

I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Nice #Advice #Favors

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Powerful #Order #Light

A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover

#Mother #Brother #Dark