Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Christopher Pike - Page 2

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.

Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.

Don’t be afraid, be terrified

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.

I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives, and who dies.

They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.

My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.