Malcolm Azania Quotes

Pain is too strong and life is too brief, brother, to avoid the pleasures that don’t hurt us.

MAY THE FORCE—”
“—FEED YOUR HORSE!

The actual world isn’t solidly real for you if you’ve been treading water in an ocean of lies your whole life.

The id isn’t satisfied with “enough,” because enough is never enough. The id always needs more, or specifically, more than anybody else. So “enough” becomes “more than” which becomes “all.” And even then, the id fears that all can be taken away; therefore crushing the capacity of others to resist becomes paramount.

The self-delusion that mysterious forces and persons unknown are conspiring against us is, surprisingly, a comforting belief, because it means we’re significant enough in this anarchic world to warrant someone’s enmity. That delusion saves us from the far more difficult to accept reality: that we’re not that important to anyone. That the universe just isn’t “into” us.
Paranoia is the emotive-psychestructure’s response to feeling ignored, unloved, or forgotten in an existence filled with random acts of destructive indifference emphasizing the inherent futility of life and struggle. If you’re ever to achieve serenity, ultimately you must accept that in such a vast cosmos, you simply don’t matter very much.

How odd—disturbing, in fact—to hear someone address a god with such profane irreverence. But I suppose that the history of mythology is nothing if not proof that celestials are the instructors of man’s worst sins.

I’m a daughter, like all mothers are. And I’m a sister. One day I might even be a mother myself. So even though I’ve got rights and responsibilities in two of those roles now, I’m also preparing for the rights and responsibilities I’ll have as a mother.

There’s only two types of people in the world, Ye, weird and boring.

Even if victory were possible, it still couldn’t provide meaning or genuine happiness, because saying “I want to be the best” is simply the polite way of saying “I want everyone else to be worse.”

People get accustomed to evil like they get accustomed to smog or noise or graffiti! But it doesn’t change what it is.

Believing in anyone more than you believe in yourself causes you to suspend your own judgment, which leads to counter-self-actualization, or self-deactivation.

What do I 'feel'?" he sneered...Did you actually ask me what I 'feel'? I 'feel' I'm surrounded by morons!

We have a maxim," says Thag. "Find the tallest structure, and you will know who runs the world.

C'mon, now. You know I'm right. Look at history. How many butchers got butchered? How many super-thieves paid back the people they ripped off and then set the people up in mansions? And how could anybody ever pay you back for taking the life of someone you loved?
"So Golden Falcon prepares us. Says, 'forget payback. Forget 'good triumphs over evil. Ain'gon happen. South Africa after apartheid? Right. Got millions who can't even count on water or electricity.
"So the story shoves our faces right in it: what it takes to turn people into the Destroyer. That if we keep lusting for revenge cuz justice is denied, we will become Destroyers. Probably of everything we believe in and everybody we care about.

We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.