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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

Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart. — Clive Barker

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

How
long 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 horror
there 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