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For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.
— Richard Matheson
I can get pissed off very easily.
— Richard Matheson
The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.
— Richard Matheson
I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.
— Richard Matheson
Let's face it, unsoothed by human kindness, souls recede.
— Richard Christian Matheson
She doesn't have to even give me supper. Im not hungry anyway.Im full. (Dress of White Silk) — Richard Matheson
Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.
— Richard Matheson
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.
— Richard Matheson
I stood there feeling nowhere.
— Richard Matheson
Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!
— Richard Matheson
All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
— Richard Matheson
That which you believe becomes your world.
— Richard Matheson
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
— Richard Matheson
But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.
— Richard Matheson
I don the robe of hermit without a cry.
— Richard Matheson
Thank you ... for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
— Richard Matheson
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
— Richard Matheson
Come out, Neville.
— Richard Matheson
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
— Richard Matheson
Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
— Richard Matheson
You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.
— Richard Matheson
Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship")
— Richard Matheson
To look at the entire journey all at once was stupidity. You thought of it in segments; that was the only way.
— Richard Matheson
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
— Richard Matheson
I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
— Richard Matheson
Now when I die, I shall only be dead.
— Richard Matheson
Everything is mental,
— Richard Matheson
When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?
— Richard Matheson
Howlong did it take for a past to die? — Richard Matheson
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
— Richard Matheson
Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.
— Richard Matheson
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.
— Richard Matheson
Everyone has a secret place in his mind. Otherwise relationships would be impossible.
— Richard Matheson
Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes
— Richard Matheson
Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
— Richard Matheson
People are not punished for their deeds but by them
— Richard Matheson
Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.
— Richard Matheson
Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad?All he does is drink blood. — Richard Matheson
Let this hell be our heaven.
— Richard Matheson
Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.
— Richard Matheson
Desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations.
— Richard Matheson
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.
— Richard Matheson
Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.
— Richard Matheson
In a world of monotonous horrorthere could be no salvation in wild dreaming. — Richard Matheson
The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.
— Richard Matheson
The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.
— Richard Matheson
What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?
— Richard Matheson
Fresh air, quiet, and the calming stimulus of the movement on the earth beneath the sky; that's why she loves to walk so much.
— Richard Matheson
I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.
— Richard Matheson
Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")
— Richard Matheson
For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.
— Richard Matheson
He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions had no location; they could follow him around.
— Richard Matheson
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.
— Richard Matheson
How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.
— Richard Matheson
Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.
— Richard Matheson
That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me - that dark fire, that music ...
— Richard Matheson
When Morton Silkline reached the hall, his customer was just flapping out a small window. Quite suddenly, Morton Silkline found the floor.
— Richard Matheson
I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.
— Richard Matheson
A man could get used to anything if he had to.
— Richard Matheson
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
Heaven would never be heaven without you.
— Richard Matheson
The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions.
— Richard Matheson