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Richard Matheson Quotes

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“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events.”
— Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man (Richard Matheson's the Shrinking Man)
Tagged: Horror, Fear, creepy
“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.”
— Richard Matheson, Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Richard Matheson
Tagged: Death, Fear, creepy
“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?

His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”
— Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Tagged: Hope, Murder, burn
“For him the word ‘horror’ had become obsolete. A surfeiting of terror made terror a cliché. To Robert Neville the situation merely existed as natural fact. It had no adjectives.”
— Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Tagged: Horror, creepy
“They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.”
— Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come: A Novel
Tagged: Suicide, Death, creepy
“We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore.”
— Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
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