Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#gods #mythology #suicide #death

Nobody steals books but your friends. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#friendship #inspirational #irony #stealing #friendship

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#armageddon #cinema #death #end-of-the-world #life

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#culture #war #art

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#history #humanity #memory #narrative #reality

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humor #irony #shakespeare #humor

I'm a lost soul. We do wail. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humor

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#growing-up #growth #life #moving-forward #moving-on

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#humanism #justice #universe #dreams

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#eternity #free-will #maturity #melancholy #pain