Top 90 Christopher Pike Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.”

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52. “But this I have lived five thousand years to learn. Power is as cold as forgotten ashes. Only my love can keep alive the memory of my daughter, the stories of Ray, Arturo, Yaksha, and most of all the grace of Krishna.”

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53. “There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.”

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54. “What you wish for, what you most hope for – that is your greatest illusion.”

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55. “Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”

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56. “The devil does not exist. I do not believe he exists. Nor do I believe the old saying that the devil’s greatest accomplishment was to convince the majority of mankind that he does not exist. For me Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity’s desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death. After all, I’m five thousands years old and I’ve never met Satan.”

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

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58. “You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

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59. “Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

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

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

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62. “Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.”

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63. “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.”

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64. “I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.”

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65. “Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.”

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66. “The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.”

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67. “Alone in my room, I don’t feel alone. It’s as if I have two shadows instead of one, and this second shadow doesn’t conform to my movements. It follows me, it gives the impression it will never leave me, but it does what it wants. I worry that in time I will do what it wants.”

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68. “There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”

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69. “Are you asking if I ever spied on you while you were taking a shower?”

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70. “Slow down. The party won’t start until I get there – Jo, Remember me. Page 43.”

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71. “For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity’s desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.”

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72. “On the other hand, if love did not mature it could lead to bondage, to jealousy. If you loved someone, but felt possessive of them, you could end up treating them like an object that belonged to you. Just as bad, with your children, if you showered them with too much love, and never disciplined them, they would grow up weak and spoiled. At times, love had to be tough, or it could end up wrecking those dearest to you.”

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73. “In the heart are three emotions – I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.”

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74. “Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.”

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75. “There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.”

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76. “I have faith. It doesn’t matter what I decide.”

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77. “This problem – it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

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78. “Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.”

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79. “Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.”

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80. “But centuries of time have not made me insensitive.”

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81. “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.”

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82. “Why do we live in Spooksville? It’s not just because our families live here. It’s because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I’m doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.”

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83. “When you do something because you’re angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.”

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84. “But Krishna is flexible when it comes to who a person worships,” I say. “He said that whatever god a man or woman worships with love, it is the same as worshipping him. I think that line is one of the keys to the Gita. The worship is for the sake of the devotee, not for the sake of the god.”

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85. “Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I don’t know what to do!”

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86. “There is no time for grief; there never is.”

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87. “When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”

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88. “Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.”

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89. “A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.”

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90. “We all die. It’s just a question of when and how horrible it’s going to be.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “Giving up our values in the name of security is to lose the battle in advance.”

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93. “Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.”

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94. “Krishna means love,” she said. “But Radha means longing. Longing is older than love. I am older than he. Did you know that, Sita?”

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95. “You are not learning to do it. You’re unlearning the belief that you can’t do it. Try again, without trying.”

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96. “Trust is like glass. You think you can see through it, that you know what’s on the other side of it. You pretend you know your partner and that he knows you. But it’s all an illusion. One day you bump against it and it cracks and you cut yourself and you bleed.”

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97. “Where ever I am is paradise because I’m there. I am Joy itself.”

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98. “I had to put on my memory, however, and I didn’t know that I was both my own God and own devil.”

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99. “It was as if he weren’t human anymore, merely a wraith sent from the netherworld to haunt humanity.”

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