Quotes from Christopher Pike

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

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

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.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

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

Love me...I am not evil.