Thom Yorke Quotes

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Neither God nor the Devil would take me in, so here I am.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

I am a poem. There is no way out.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)