Top 90 Christopher Pike Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”

— Christopher Pike

2. “You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

4. “People with power always take advantage of those without power.”

— Christopher Pike

5. “A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.”

— Christopher Pike

6. “The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”

— Christopher Pike

7. “Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

— Christopher Pike

8. “Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.”

— Christopher Pike

9. “Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

— Christopher Pike

10. “Don’t be afraid, be terrified.”

— Christopher Pike

11. “Thank you, Yoda. Feel the force, Luke.”

— Christopher Pike

12. “Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”

— Christopher Pike

13. “I am a vampire, and that is the truth.”

— Christopher Pike

14. “Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.”

— Christopher Pike

15. “When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”

— Christopher Pike

16. “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.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

18. “One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”

— Christopher Pike

19. “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.”

— Christopher Pike

20. “That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.”

— Christopher Pike

21. “No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we’ll live forever.”

— Christopher Pike

22. “I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn’t know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

24. “True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.”

— Christopher Pike

25. “People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don’t worry if good does not always come from what you do.”

— Christopher Pike

26. “But I wasn’t a bad girl. I don’t want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”

— Christopher Pike

27. “Time cannot destroy it. I am that love – time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.”

— Christopher Pike

28. “It doesn’t matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.”

— Christopher Pike

29. “Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don’t think of myself that way. It wasn’t so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I’m not sure exactly what that means yet. I’m told everything’s going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That’s what saddens me most about dying – that I’ll never know.”

— Christopher Pike

30. “Don’t simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.”

— Christopher Pike

31. “Power, wealth and immortality – they don’t bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.”

— Christopher Pike

32. “The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.”

— Christopher Pike

33. “The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”

— Christopher Pike

34. “All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.”

— Christopher Pike

35. “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.”

— Christopher Pike

36. “Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.”

— Christopher Pike

37. “You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”

— Christopher Pike

38. “The hourglass runs low...”

— Christopher Pike

39. “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.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

41. “The best art always comes unbidden.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

43. “God is God. His name doesn’t matter.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

45. “I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don’t need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn’t have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn’t do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn’t a bad girl. I don’t want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”

— Christopher Pike

46. “I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.”

— Christopher Pike

47. “For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.”

— Christopher Pike

48. “But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.”

— Christopher Pike

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

— Christopher Pike

50. “It’s ironic, isn’t it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.”

— Christopher Pike