Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

People in this world are not often logical.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Life [had] replaced logic.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.