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The Long Walk QUOTES

The Long Walk QUOTES

1 " They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

2 " Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be? "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

3 " He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

4 " He wondered how far his legs would carry him on their own - how long before his brain took over them and began punishing them, making them work past any sane limit, to keep a bullet from crashing into its own bony cradle. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

5 " I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies? "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

6 " They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

7 " It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for? "

― Stephen King , The Long Walk

8 " Better to be dirty than dead. "

― Stephen King , The Long Walk

9 " Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

10 " If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

11 " They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

12 " Pienso que llega un momento en que la voluntad sencillamente se agota.No importa lo que yo piense ¿entiendes?. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

13 " The reason all of this is so horrible,” McVries said, “is because it’s just trivial. You know? We’ve sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

14 " If people just took it a day at a time, they’d be a lot happier. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

15 " None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

16 " We’ll all be glad to see you die. No one’s going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I’ll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I’ll do that. Maybe we all will.” It "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

17 " Love is a fake!” Olson was blaring. “There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that’s all! "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

18 " The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

19 " His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk

20 " Another time, another place. "

― Richard Bachman , The Long Walk