Woodring Quotes

So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause. — Matthew Woodring Stover

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. — Jim Woodring

The king of the gods took away this man's family, everyone that he loved - and still this particular man did not surrender. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain. — Matthew Woodring Stover

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Once you sand the corners off consequences, people start to get really fucking weird. — Matthew Woodring Stover

How can he love being ... that? Being what Caine is?"
"Because he's an asshole," she says. "You must have noticed. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Opposites attract, but similarities bind. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Everything I tell you is a lie."

-Vergere — Matthew Woodring Stover

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it's giving you its life. Every time. — Matthew Woodring Stover

This threshhold is mine ... Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass.
-Ganner Rhysode — Matthew Woodring Stover

Which would leave Mace and Agen Kolar- -both among the greatest bladesbeings the Jedi Order has ever produced — Matthew Woodring Stover

... what your life means depends on how you tell the story. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you! — Matthew Woodring Stover

Jacen Solo, your sojourn in the lands of the dead is at an end. It is time once again to walk the bright fields of day. — Matthew Woodring Stover

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins. — Matthew Woodring Stover

You assume that I don't know and I do care. The truth is the other way around. — Matthew Woodring Stover

A girl likes to be asked, dumbass. — Matthew Woodring Stover

It may be there's such a thing as a tool than can't be used as a weapon, but I've never met one. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies. — Matthew Woodring Stover

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest — Matthew Woodring Stover

If you have to justify an action, you probably shouldn't have done it in the first place. — Matthew Woodring Stover

The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Can't trust a fascist
truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state — Matthew Woodring Stover

Shit, kid, thinking about that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just ate a kitten. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Have you had contact with any other survivors?"
"Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty ... Each of us is the sum of our scars. — Matthew Woodring Stover

The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for. — Jim Woodring

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Not his penetrating intellect, or his talents with the Force, or his unmatched skills with a lightsaber.
-Matthew Stover on Mace Windu — Matthew Woodring Stover

All true stories end in death. — Matthew Woodring Stover

last name's just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents." I — Matthew Woodring Stover

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls. — Jim Woodring

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that? — Matthew Woodring Stover

The author respectfully dedicates this book to everyone who is almost as smart as they think they are. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not. — Jim Woodring

many truths we regard as immutable are, in fact, surprisingly context dependent. — Matthew Woodring Stover

And so, here at the end of days, you are as you've always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit — Matthew Woodring Stover

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be — Matthew Woodring Stover

If i listen hard enough, i can hear that voice: that small quiet whisper in the back of my head that keeps on insisting "My will, or i won't". — Matthew Woodring Stover

Only human, after all. — Matthew Woodring Stover

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth. — Matthew Woodring Stover

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free.
-Vergere — Matthew Woodring Stover

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Reasons are for peasants. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down.
-Ganner Rhysode — Matthew Woodring Stover

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. — Jim Woodring

Be not afraid, child. Be what you are. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Names are masks, they get in the way. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge. — Matthew Woodring Stover

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly. — Matthew Woodring Stover

She was another world to me; she and the regular world stood side by side and made two worlds. I loved them both. — Jim Woodring

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring

In every exchange, Obi-Wan gave ground. It was his way. — Matthew Woodring Stover

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are. — Jim Woodring

Everything's forever until it isn't. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say. — Jim Woodring

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things. — Jim Woodring

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one. — Jim Woodring

A lie is like a pet- you have to take care of it, or it'll turn on you and bite you in the ass. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I know some gods. Better than I want to. Not one of them gives a shit about your heart — Matthew Woodring Stover

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other. — Matthew Woodring Stover

It's desperate in life to be beloved of God."
"Depends on the God."
"Does it?"
"Christ, I hope so."
the horse-witch and Caine — Matthew Woodring Stover

Should's nothing like is. — Matthew Woodring Stover

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint. — Matthew Woodring Stover

That's what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong. — Matthew Woodring Stover

No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain — Matthew Woodring Stover

When you eat, eat. When you sleep, sleep. When you fight, fight. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Each of us is the sum of our scars. — Matthew Woodring Stover

I told you before," he muttered solidly. "You can kill me, but you can't make me obey. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.
-Vergere — Matthew Woodring Stover