Quotes About Impact

I can't quite believe he has actually left this scene, left our lives, wherein he was always so significant!

What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.

Anything can be tarnished by association, and if you have enough associations you can blacken the world.

Starting this relationship seems to me one of the better things you've ever done, however it ends. We can't separate it from how it ends.

So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.

You say we don't know the consequences of actions. But we don't know the consequences of inactions either, and inactions are actions.

Verá usted, todo empezó con unas cartas. —¿Cartas? —Si, los seres humanos deberían tener muchísimo más cuidado con las cartas. Son unas armas muy poderosas. Sin embargo, la gente las escribe en momentos de emoción y quienes las reciben no las destruyen.

What dangerous machines letters are. Perhaps it is as well that they are going out of fashion. A letter can be endlessly reread and reinterpreted, it stirs imagination and fantasy, it persists, it is red-hot evidence.

Can one, in such a self-portrait, omit something which affected one's whole being and which one has thought of every day of one's life? 'Every day' exaggerates, but not much. I do not need to 'recall' Hartley, she is here. She is my end and my beginning, she is alpha and omega.

Because of what you have done things will happen later which can't possibly be foreseen.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

you were better making history than studying it.

He told her: - I'm gaunnae fuck you like you've never been fucked in your life. He was right. She'd never been fucked that badly, either before or since.

When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing

Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.

No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.