Top 40 Michael R. Fletcher Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Today’s truth will be tomorrow’s lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

2. “Culture, like religion, depends on the indoctrination of children before they are able to question or think for themselves.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

3. “A sane man is simply a man afraid to unleash his inner demons.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

4. “In a mad world, only the mad are sane. – AKIRA KUROSAWA.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

5. “I was sane once. It was horrible.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

6. “Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn’t see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?”

— Michael R. Fletcher

7. “All communication is manipulation,” said Konig. “All interaction, social or otherwise, is a means of getting what you want. It’s the basis of society.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

8. “Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

9. “We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly lose control. That moment when our minds white out and thought vanishes, when the fire within us devours all rationality.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

10. “Her lungs, like moldering cheesecloth sacks, hung visible between cracked and yellowing ribs. Her internal organs, long absent, only flaked brown gristle clung to her spine. Sparse clumps of pale hair clung to the few shreds of flesh still gripping her skull. Five other Cotardist assassins stood mutely behind her. Though none looked to be such an advanced state of decay, they all showed signs of rot and neglect.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

11. “We are each living a story. What many of us are too afraid to admit is that we are the authors of our story. You are living the life you chose for yourself. You are living the result of each and every one of your choices. If you are letting others make decisions for you, you are allowing them to write your story. Do they have your best interests at heart? If you are unhappy, whose fault is that? Don’t like your life, go write yourself a better one.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

12. “Words and swords, they were weapons. Weapons in which he was more than proficient. You can’t have sword without word, mused Wichtig.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

13. “You can lead a horse to water, but drowning it is surprisingly difficult.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

14. “I wouldn’t say we were wealthy.” “Only the wealthy say that. Everyone else knows they’re poor.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

15. “Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, “you are being used”, listen. Ignore your baser desires.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

16. “Fate didn’t stand in the way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

17. “The doing is the easy part. It’s the deciding to do that is difficult. I most regret the decisions never made.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

18. “Not everyone expects to have to kill someone every moment of every day. Bedeckt.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

19. “My mirror never shows me what I want to see. I can’t possibly be this fat and ugly!”

— Michael R. Fletcher

20. “No, it is you who doesn’t understand. The facts don’t matter and that’s a fact. I wasn’t winning the crowd with logic, I was simply sowing seeds of doubt and bolstering my own confidence.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

21. “Numerical superiority will win over superior weapons. Thus peasants are only peasants because they allow themselves to be peasants. Perhaps it’s what they want, though that makes little sense to me. They could as easily be the rulers if they decided.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

22. “Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

23. “She’ll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

24. “All people need to make hell is more people.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

25. “Konig couldn’t help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

26. “Frankly, none of it seemed terribly real. The past, I decided, was like that. Even the most cherished moments faded, became memories of memories, as we focussed on the parts we liked, and forgot the rest.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

27. “There’s something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

28. “Fear would never allow him anything so hopelessly silly as hope. Still, fear would keep him alive. It was the only sane emotion in an insane world.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

29. “See, I understand what no one else seems to grasp. Communication is manipulation. Every time we speak we are trying to achieve an effect – a goal. We first learn to talk so we may better manipulate our parents. Sign language. Grunting and pointing. Wearing certain clothes and baubles. Walking or standing a certain way. This is all language and it is all manipulation.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

30. “Confident men didn’t hunger for worship, didn’t crave fear. The wants of a man who likes himself are so very different from those of a man drowning in self-loathing.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

31. “Think about it. When you die you’ll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we’ll be surrounded by our enemies.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

32. “Gehirn had to protect her love – and she only knew one way to do so. She lit the sky afire.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

33. “Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

34. “Can a need for sanity reach insane proportions?”

— Michael R. Fletcher

35. “No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

36. “The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith – all three manifestations of delusion – meant even more to gods.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

37. “Trustworthy people, was that an oxymoron?”

— Michael R. Fletcher

38. “On a good day her breath could drop a bull at a hundred paces. This was definitely not one of her good days. She was filthy and unappealing in every possible way.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

39. “For all Wichtig spoke of trust, he trusted no one. For all he spoke of wisdom, he learned nothing. Every word he uttered was done so with an eye toward manipulation.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

40. “Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

41. “The deranged tended to live in segregated parts of town where their delusions would not be tainted and limited by the proximity of the solid beliefs of the pathetic sane.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

42. “I don’t see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don’t like it, see something else.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

43. “And the people love a well-mannered killer.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

44. “Cooking is woman’s work.” She tilted her head to one side, examining him like he was something unpleasant she’d stepped in. “Do you know how to build a house?” “What? No.” “But that’s man’s work.” “I’m not that kind of man.” “Well, I’m not that kind of woman.” Bedeckt.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

45. “No one thanks you for showing them the light.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

46. “That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn’t the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose.”

— Michael R. Fletcher

47. “People are happiest when striving, when working toward something. Life isn’t about the destination; it’s not about winning. It’s the fight, the struggle.”

— Michael R. Fletcher