Top 100 M.R. Carey Quotes (2024 Update)

M.R. Carey Quote: “And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.”

1. “And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Pain has no agenda at all. It teaches us nothing, except what hurts. And if you can’t avoid the things that hurt then what use is the lesson?”

2. “Pain has no agenda at all. It teaches us nothing, except what hurts. And if you can’t avoid the things that hurt then what use is the lesson?”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire.”

3. “She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Wherever you tried to draw the line they were already inside it.”

4. “Wherever you tried to draw the line they were already inside it.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It’s a little bit like a cow listening to a recipe for beef stew.”

5. “It’s a little bit like a cow listening to a recipe for beef stew.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “To see death coming and be able to look it in the face is part of what human beings gained when they took the path that led them away from the rest of the living kingdoms. Part of what they lost, too, no doubt.”

6. “To see death coming and be able to look it in the face is part of what human beings gained when they took the path that led them away from the rest of the living kingdoms. Part of what they lost, too, no doubt.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “But along with these scary thoughts, she also thinks: Sergeant has a name. The same way the teachers do. The same way the children do. Up until now, Sergeant has been more like a god or a Titan to Melanie; now she knows that he’s just like everyone else, even if he is scary. He’s not just Sergeant, he’s Sergeant Parks. The enormity of that change, more than anything else, is what keeps her awake until the doors unlock in the morning and the teachers come.”

7. “But along with these scary thoughts, she also thinks: Sergeant has a name. The same way the teachers do. The same way the children do. Up until now, Sergeant has been more like a god or a Titan to Melanie; now she knows that he’s just like everyone else, even if he is scary. He’s not just Sergeant, he’s Sergeant Parks. The enormity of that change, more than anything else, is what keeps her awake until the doors unlock in the morning and the teachers come.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “In any event, he has traded power for a clean conscience and ended up with neither.”

8. “In any event, he has traded power for a clean conscience and ended up with neither.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus... meaning that it keeps things moving but it’s neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.”

9. “Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus... meaning that it keeps things moving but it’s neutral when it comes to the direction they move in.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?”

10. “If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Suddenly she’s an ant all scrunched up on the floor of that world. A static atom in a sea of change. The immensity of earth envelops her, and enters into her. She sips it, with each gulp of heady, supercharged atmosphere.”

11. “Suddenly she’s an ant all scrunched up on the floor of that world. A static atom in a sea of change. The immensity of earth envelops her, and enters into her. She sips it, with each gulp of heady, supercharged atmosphere.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Even the air seems to have a smell – earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.”

12. “Even the air seems to have a smell – earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don’t stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they’re gone.”

13. “It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don’t stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they’re gone.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can’t throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which.”

14. “Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can’t throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “When you’re a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you’re doing.”

15. “When you’re a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you’re doing.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Things don’t end, after all. They only change, and you keep changing with them.”

16. “Things don’t end, after all. They only change, and you keep changing with them.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Melanie realises now that she’s been told all this already. She just ignored it, ignored the self-evident logic of her world, and believed – out of the many conflicting stories she was given – only the parts she wanted to believe.”

17. “Melanie realises now that she’s been told all this already. She just ignored it, ignored the self-evident logic of her world, and believed – out of the many conflicting stories she was given – only the parts she wanted to believe.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “If he says something that isn’t true, he is bringing uncertainty into the world. He is blinding the people around him to a small part of the truth – and every part of the truth is important. You can’t complete a jigsaw if one of its pieces has been swapped out for a piece of a different jigsaw.”

18. “If he says something that isn’t true, he is bringing uncertainty into the world. He is blinding the people around him to a small part of the truth – and every part of the truth is important. You can’t complete a jigsaw if one of its pieces has been swapped out for a piece of a different jigsaw.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Yesterday she thought that the hungries were like houses that people used to live in. Now she thinks that every one of those houses is haunted.”

19. “Yesterday she thought that the hungries were like houses that people used to live in. Now she thinks that every one of those houses is haunted.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “There can’t be any rules in the telling of stories... as to the happiness or sadness of it, that depends where you’re standing.”

20. “There can’t be any rules in the telling of stories... as to the happiness or sadness of it, that depends where you’re standing.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Stock was a rationalist and an atheist. Most of the time she saw the world as a big machine where things just played themselves out. Anonymous forces, impersonal powers, action and reaction, cause and effect. It would be comforting to live in a world that had order and purpose in it, which she supposed was why so many people pretended they did.”

21. “Stock was a rationalist and an atheist. Most of the time she saw the world as a big machine where things just played themselves out. Anonymous forces, impersonal powers, action and reaction, cause and effect. It would be comforting to live in a world that had order and purpose in it, which she supposed was why so many people pretended they did.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they’re ignorant think it because they can see the edges of what they know, which you can only see when what you know is tall enough to stand on, and take a look around.”

22. “I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they’re ignorant think it because they can see the edges of what they know, which you can only see when what you know is tall enough to stand on, and take a look around.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The daytime burns with a single fire, and a lot of the time it burns fitfully. The night is a million suns exploding all at once, igniting the whole sky.”

23. “The daytime burns with a single fire, and a lot of the time it burns fitfully. The night is a million suns exploding all at once, igniting the whole sky.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “They talk for a little while longer about the things that have happened, wrapping the violence up in careful, delicate words so it feels less horrible. Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are. She wishes she could do that with her big secret.”

24. “They talk for a little while longer about the things that have happened, wrapping the violence up in careful, delicate words so it feels less horrible. Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself – that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they’re something different than they are. She wishes she could do that with her big secret.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It was a sweet apology, and furthermore I seen now how Spinner did the thing with the knife and the fork to turn Haijon’s thoughts away from the hurt she done him. I admired her cleverness in that, which was not a sly cleverness but a thoughtful and a gentle one. That Spinner could be gentle or fierce by turns whenever there was need for one or for the other was part of who she was, and part of why I loved her.”

25. “It was a sweet apology, and furthermore I seen now how Spinner did the thing with the knife and the fork to turn Haijon’s thoughts away from the hurt she done him. I admired her cleverness in that, which was not a sly cleverness but a thoughtful and a gentle one. That Spinner could be gentle or fierce by turns whenever there was need for one or for the other was part of who she was, and part of why I loved her.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Which is faulty learning because it always comes.”

26. “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Which is faulty learning because it always comes.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I had made so many mistakes since then, I couldn’t even count them no more. If I could unpick my whole life like a pattern in wove cloth, I would do it in a heartbeat. But life’s not forgiving either, and we only get one chance to weave what pattern we can.”

27. “I had made so many mistakes since then, I couldn’t even count them no more. If I could unpick my whole life like a pattern in wove cloth, I would do it in a heartbeat. But life’s not forgiving either, and we only get one chance to weave what pattern we can.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward as though it’s solid. But the whole world is in freefall and you’re in freefall with it.”

28. “Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward as though it’s solid. But the whole world is in freefall and you’re in freefall with it.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Qui tacet consentire. If you don’t say no, you just said yes. He.”

29. “Qui tacet consentire. If you don’t say no, you just said yes. He.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”

30. “There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Rough edges were what you needed because they were what you sharpened yourself against. Nobody ever got sharp from lying in a feather bed.”

31. “Rough edges were what you needed because they were what you sharpened yourself against. Nobody ever got sharp from lying in a feather bed.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”

32. “But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Denial is a stage she goes through very quickly indeed, because her reason strikes down the demeaning, treacherous thought as quickly as it rises. There’s no point in denying the truth when the truth is self-evident. There’s no point in denying the truth even if you have to wade through thorn thickets and minefields to get to it. The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”

33. “Denial is a stage she goes through very quickly indeed, because her reason strikes down the demeaning, treacherous thought as quickly as it rises. There’s no point in denying the truth when the truth is self-evident. There’s no point in denying the truth even if you have to wade through thorn thickets and minefields to get to it. The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She thinks: all journeys are the same journey, whether you’re moving or not. And the things that look like endings are all just stations on the way.”

34. “She thinks: all journeys are the same journey, whether you’re moving or not. And the things that look like endings are all just stations on the way.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

35. “The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She could be as selfish as she’s always been, and forgive herself the way everybody else does, and wake up every day as clean as if she’d just been born.”

36. “She could be as selfish as she’s always been, and forgive herself the way everybody else does, and wake up every day as clean as if she’d just been born.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Jess wasn’t religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.”

37. “Jess wasn’t religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.”

38. “Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.”

$M.R. Carey Quote: “They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that – while they have no coherent internal logic – all seem drearily familiar and inevitable.”$

39. “They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that – while they have no coherent internal logic – all seem drearily familiar and inevitable.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It’s an emergent property of a very complicated system.”

40. “Justice? Justice is even more problematic than truth. It’s an emergent property of a very complicated system.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She likes the idea of saving Miss Justineau so much that it becomes her favourite thought. She thinks about it whenever she’s not thinking about anything else.”

41. “She likes the idea of saving Miss Justineau so much that it becomes her favourite thought. She thinks about it whenever she’s not thinking about anything else.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It’s not often our hearts sing out of tune with each other.”

42. “It’s not often our hearts sing out of tune with each other.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “And the sun comes out, like a kiss on the cheek from God.”

43. “And the sun comes out, like a kiss on the cheek from God.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “He frigging flat-out hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.”

44. “He frigging flat-out hates frivolous, thoughtless people who dance across the surface of the world without looking down.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you’re lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures.”

45. “You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you’re lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “It’s called fascism, Koli-bou. It’s like ra-ra skirts and flared trousers. People get all hot for it and make themselves look ridiculous, then when the fad blows over they pretend they were never that into it.”

46. “It’s called fascism, Koli-bou. It’s like ra-ra skirts and flared trousers. People get all hot for it and make themselves look ridiculous, then when the fad blows over they pretend they were never that into it.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “I don’t like people very much. I’m all in favour of them as a concept, but I don’t get on with them at all when I have to mix with them.”

47. “I don’t like people very much. I’m all in favour of them as a concept, but I don’t get on with them at all when I have to mix with them.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “Tolkien disapproved of Lewis’s Narnia books because they worked by analogy, taking an existing myth and retelling it with different names and circumstances, whereas he felt that you should make your own myth out of whole cloth. But it’s not possible to read The Silmarillion without seeing how Sauron’s fall mirrors Satan’s. It’s only a question of how you triangulate your relationship to your source material.”

48. “Tolkien disapproved of Lewis’s Narnia books because they worked by analogy, taking an existing myth and retelling it with different names and circumstances, whereas he felt that you should make your own myth out of whole cloth. But it’s not possible to read The Silmarillion without seeing how Sauron’s fall mirrors Satan’s. It’s only a question of how you triangulate your relationship to your source material.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “You shouldn’t kill a man without being aware of the possibilities, the futures, you’re snuffing out. The younger the target, the more of those possible futures there are. Killing a child is like killing a vast multitude.”

49. “You shouldn’t kill a man without being aware of the possibilities, the futures, you’re snuffing out. The younger the target, the more of those possible futures there are. Killing a child is like killing a vast multitude.”

M.R. Carey Quote: “She falters into silence, waits to be told that she’s cashiered. It will be a relief. It will all be over. She’ll have taken it as far as she can, and she’ll have lost, and they’ll send her away. It will become somebody else’s problem. Of course she’d save the kids if she could, if there was any way, but you can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.”

50. “She falters into silence, waits to be told that she’s cashiered. It will be a relief. It will all be over. She’ll have taken it as far as she can, and she’ll have lost, and they’ll send her away. It will become somebody else’s problem. Of course she’d save the kids if she could, if there was any way, but you can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.”

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