P. C. Cast Quotes

I desire therefore I exist.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

We are what we are, wherever we are.

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

You are what exists before all stories.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

I'm not a creature of the night, mate.

The spirit is the true self.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

All we are is in the soul.

When I began to read, I began to exist