Fritz Leiber Quotes

• Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

  Fritz Leiber

  Warm, Chilly, Servitude

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

  Fritz Leiber

  Cat, Organization, People

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.

  Fritz Leiber

  Laughter, Motivation, Dark

  Fritz Leiber (2016). “The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK®”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

  Fritz Leiber

  Cosmos, Assuming, Conspiracy

  Fritz Leiber (2011). “The Big Time”, p.77, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?

  Fritz Leiber

  Upset, Might, Remember

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fun, World, Rooms

  Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft (2004). “Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark”, p.202, Wildside Press LLC

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Purpose, May

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

  Fritz Leiber

  Movement, Lows, Corridors

  Fritz Leiber (1964). “The wanderer”

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• A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

  Fritz Leiber

  Healthy, Coincidence, Scientist

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

  Fritz Leiber

  Humorous, Hero, Should

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• There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

  Fritz Leiber

  Blood, Vampire, Hungry

  Fritz Leiber (2016). “Horrible Imaginings”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

  Fritz Leiber

  Hate, People, Magic

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

  Fritz Leiber

  Half, Stones, Pebbles

  "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.

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• Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

  Fritz Leiber

  Different

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.180, Open Road Media

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• Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

  Fritz Leiber

  Communication, Mean, People

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.160, Open Road Media

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• There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

  Fritz Leiber

  Night, Sky, Something New

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Wonder, Wealth

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

  Fritz Leiber

  Crisis

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.262, Open Road Media

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• What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

  Fritz Leiber

  Loneliness, People, Care

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.345, Open Road Media

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• Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

  Fritz Leiber

  Equal, Madmen, Drunkards

  Fritz Leiber (2015). “The Big Time: Top Science Fiction”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Venice, Atmosphere

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Stupid, Thinking

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• Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

  Fritz Leiber

  New York, Gun, Cities

  Fritz Leiber, Fred Gambino (1979). “Ship of Shadows”

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