Christopher Pike Quotes
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Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
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We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.
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Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
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When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.
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A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
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There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.
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In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
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It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
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It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.
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Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.
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You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
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For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
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Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
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Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
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Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?
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All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.
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My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.
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Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.
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True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
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Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
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I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
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I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.
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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
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Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
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Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
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Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.
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No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
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The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.
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You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.
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When you're in love it's beautiful. When you're not it's just dirty filthy sex. Loveless sex has no true spiritual meaning deep inside your soul. But love makes everything totally cool. Love is God's special gift to horny teenage girls and boys. It makes them feel less guilty.
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