Philip Pullman Quotes

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

If you can do it then why do it?

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Some things are impossible.

Soorma' means someone who does something that is impossible. It's the perfect title.

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.