R. A. Lafferty - Place Quotes

11 Sourced Quotes

View all R. A. Lafferty Quotes
Do you not know that the underground lands are shared by many worlds? It is all one underground, a vast place, and it is but a trick on which globe one will surface on coming out. This is the reason that the inside of every world is so much vaster than the outside. You are fooled by the shape of these little balls on which things live and crawl; you see the universe inside out; you see the orbs as containing and not contained. I will teach you to see it right if you please me.

R. A. Lafferty
I've had enough of this place where they stuff you full of bull and then hunt you down and kill you every day.

R. A. Lafferty
Man-a-bleeding, but they broke out of that place! You say it can't be done, but they did it. Their expectations had been too high, and no second-rate Hell could hold them.
In a way it was their greatest feat. No one else had ever broken out of there before.

R. A. Lafferty
It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.

R. A. Lafferty
Brannagan had been to more places than Finnegan had, including the same places. He had not only skirted the d'Entre-Casteau Islands, he had walked all over them. He had not only sailed through China Straits, he had dived in them for old wrecks. He had not only climbed the Cloudy Mountains, but had panned gold in their streams and dips.

R. A. Lafferty
You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!

R. A. Lafferty
I will never tell anyone how much fun it is in this place.

R. A. Lafferty
If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.

R. A. Lafferty
Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —"

R. A. Lafferty
The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it,
You shiver when you even make a joke of it. Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there,
The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there… Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it.
A wide way leading in and no way out of it! But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there —
Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there.

R. A. Lafferty
This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.

R. A. Lafferty