Richard Matheson Quotes

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

Life is the longest death in California.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.