Top 40 Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nobody cares. You shouldn’t either.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

2. “Don’t need a degree in rocket science to do this job.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

3. “Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you’re doing things, then you still exist, right?”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

4. “This place is full of unwritten rules.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

5. “Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

6. “Let’s make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

7. “When you’re locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

8. “One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

9. “It’s incredible how much stamina you can find when you’re fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

10. “But nobody can run from their own demons.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

11. “Death is never the end.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

12. “And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

13. “I wondered how many voices there were living in my head, and how they could all have such different opinions.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

14. “Don’t make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

15. “The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it’s endlessly fragile – it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

16. “The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

17. “Like I’ve said before, so many times before, I’m not a good person, I’m not a hero. I’m a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

18. “I’d been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom – one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

19. “All for one and let’s get the hell out of here.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

20. “Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

21. “You don’t have friends in here, you’ll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you’ll just lose them. They’ll get shanked or they’ll jump or they’ll be taken one night.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

22. “There always has to be someone to take the punches. That’s how it works. It isn’t fair, it isn’t right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

23. “No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it’s there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it’s there. It’s always there.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

24. “This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

25. “We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness... All it takes is one simple snip and we fall.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

26. “You don’t see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

27. “Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

28. “Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

29. “Let me know if you’re going to do something stupid, kid, ’cause I’ll ditch you like that.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

30. “All it needed was me, and my fear. Because alone in the silence, in the unfathomable darkness, I knew that my own thoughts would drive me mad. My own mind would kill me.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

31. “He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

32. “And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

33. “As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we’re separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare...”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

34. “Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

35. “But I’m starting to understand that you don’t have to be perfect to be good. You can do bad things and still be a good person.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

36. “And what could the darkness be, other than humanity? This crushing, heavy mass of people who had no legitimate right to life. How many souls lived on earth now? Six billion? Seven? All of them like insects, crawling around on their hands and knees or slaughtering one another in pursuit of scraps. They were ignorant, they were cruel, they were the night that smothered the day. They did not deserve their existence.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

37. “That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

38. “You may rest here, if you are. Each of His flock is welcome.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

39. “There was only Furnace. It was our world, our grave, our hell.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

40. “And like I’ve said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right?”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

41. “All we had to do was rock this one city to its knees and the cancer of fear would spread. The worl would crumble all by itself.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

42. “Still no pain as such, just that infuriating itch.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

43. “I helped you because you’re new, and because when there’s two people in a cell then there’s only a fifty percent chance they’ll take you.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

44. “Are you children of God” he asked. I almost burst out laughing, managing to bite mny tongue before it erupted.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

45. “It’s one of the things I love most about being an author – seeing the different covers from each country.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith

46. “Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn’t say it out loud, though.”

— Alexander Gordon Smith