Dave Sim famous quotes

03-23-2025

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
-- Dave Sim

#Profound #Unseen #Want
Everyone is normal until you get to know them.
-- Dave Sim

#Normal
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
-- Dave Sim

#Given
As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.
-- Dave Sim
The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.
-- Dave Sim

#Couple #Thinking #Generations
In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.
-- Dave Sim

#Cat #Trying #Want
Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.
-- Dave Sim

#Done #Firsts #Demon
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.
-- Dave Sim

#Mean #Thinking #Feet
The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your immutable destiny to do so. You have not come this far and at such a cost merely to turn around and go back. There is a solution. Of this you are certain. Now, no longer a game of mass, a game of destiny, it has become, instead a contest of wills. You focus on That Which You Seek as if your gaze alone might bring it closer or narrow the distance between you. Just as it feels as if your mind itself will explode from the strain.
-- Dave Sim

#Distance #Destiny #Games
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use..
-- Dave Sim

#Freedom #Men #Use
God grinds the axes he intends to use.
-- Dave Sim

#Axes #Use #Grind
Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.
-- Dave Sim

#Falling In Love #Smoking #Looks
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
-- Dave Sim

#Mistake #Consciousness #Hallmark
For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
-- Dave Sim

#Baby #Time #Memories
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!
-- Dave Sim

#Beauty #Reality #Hands
You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.
-- Dave Sim

#Life #Odds #Flames
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
-- Dave Sim

#Reality #Ideas #Darkness

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