Matthew Stover - Life Quotes

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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 Stover

Fairy tales—simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.

Matthew Stover

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

Matthew Stover

... I suspect that pain means little to you as your life—but both your life and your pain are very important to me.

Matthew Stover

And in the name of this gospel of freedom, she had imprisoned herself; in the name of "living life honestly," she would go to her death. It was, he supposed, the only way she could make herself feel special.

Matthew Stover

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Matthew Stover