Jim Starlin Quotes

The Universe is on the side of Justice

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.