Consequence Quotes - Page 19

• As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

  Scott Lynch

  Decision, Maps, Biographies

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.801, Del Rey

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

  James A. Owen

  Knowing, Choices, Bears

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• You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.

  Susane Colasanti

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• Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Worry, Criminals

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

  Kim Harrison

  Savages, Backyards, Fairy

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• This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Artist, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Attention, Care

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• Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Atheist, Mean

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The God Delusion”, p.328, Random House

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• He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Strong, Lying, Passion

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aylmer Maude (1937). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude”

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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Regret, Wish, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

  Aldous Huxley

  Insanity, Individual, Collectives

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• Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

  Jojo Moyes

  Mistake, Choices, Results

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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• That's where you come in. I want into that guy's mind, and you need to tell me how to do it." Ad shrugged. "Personally, I'd just use a hacksaw, but—" "There are potential consequences and side effects," Eddie said carefully. "Like what?" "Well, worst case... he could end up like Adrian.

  J.R. Ward

  Guy, Mind, Needs

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.85, Penguin

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• Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

  Dean Koontz

  Humility, Self, Age

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.62, Bantam

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• In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Garden, Deceit

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• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

  Megan Hart

  Secret Places, Land, Long

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• If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Civilization, Ego

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• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Atmosphere, West

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• It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own

  Amish Tripathi

  Karma, Fighting, People

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• A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

  Jo Nesbo

  Morality, Accepting, Persons

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• Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

  Mitch Albom

  Moments, Counting, Knows

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