Quotes from Richard Matheson

They won't accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they'll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief. The emotions will swallow anything—and they do.

I'd been in the densest part of the earth's aura he told me, an aqueous region which was the source of myths about the waters of Lethe, the River Styx.

No, no, there was danger there. It was thinking of the past that drove him to the bottle. He was just going to have to accept the present.

I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it.

Did you know, Robert, that, in extreme unction, the seven centers of the body—covering the vital organs—are anointed to assist the dying person to withdraw vitality from those organs in preparation for complete withdrawal through the silver cord? And absolution of the dead was established to make certain that the silver cord is severed and all etheric matter withdrawn from the body.

The agony of being earthbound can be indescribable. I'm sure the memory still haunts.

Another day. Another collection of wracking hours.

she watched the storm move off on lightning legs.

My teenage years were unacceptable. An unhappy array of failed female liaisons and repetitive skin disorders.

All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire.

Con qué rapidez se acepta lo increíble si se ve con frecuencia!

And this knowledge you say you've acquired—are you conscious of an increase in it since your ill-fated visit to the library?" Fed nodded. "I know more than ever.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. The flagellant's curse, he thought, to grow inured even to the whip.

From that day on he learned to accept the dungeon he existed in, neither seeking to escape with sudden derring-do nor beating his pate bloody on its walls. And, thus resigned, he returned to work.

Todos volvieron hacia Neville los rostros pálidos. Neville los observó serenamente. Y de pronto comprendió. Yo soy el anormal ahora. La normalidad es un concepto mayoritario. Norma de muchos, no de un solo hombre.

And to kill one's self is to violate the law because it deprives that self of working out the needs of its life.

Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.

They said he used to cackle and bark in his crib after dark. They said he walked at two months and sat staring at the moon whenever it shone. Those were things that people said. His parents were always worried about him. An only child, they noticed his flaws quickly. They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare.

They spoke, at length, about the realms "above" this one. Levels at which the progressing soul becomes at one with God—formless, independent of time and substance though still aware of personal identity.

There were still many things to learn, but not so many as before.

he'd thought the past was dead. How long did it take for a past to die? She

Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul, lovie – is the vampire so bad?

People are not punished for their deeds, but by them~

All this time I have been telling myself that the skills I have to offer continue to be of value. Now I wonder if this is so. It may be that the day of the so-called "gunfighter" is on the wane. That soon it will be little more than the memory of a brief period in time when masters of the handgun ruled the frontier. A living dead man. That is what I have been for some time now.