18 quotes
In all the rest of my life’s wanderings, I never met another person who spoke words to rival the beauty of mathematics.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
Prophecy is first and foremost a self-serving gift.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
There will be paperwork, no government action can occur without it, but that can come later.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
Was all of the universe a fixed game, if one only knew where and how to look?
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
It seems to me, that the most unlikely events almost have to happen, or life would just be dull and no one would write anything down.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
The Archetype of Man had not leaped to any false conclusions, had not mistaken Jorl for a deity. Rather, it withheld judgment until it had compiled sufficient explanation.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
She hated politics and she had no patience for the ultra-serious, wide-eyed dreamers who wanted to change your world whether you wanted to live with those changes or not.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
“Oh! This isn’t possible. You’re dead.”
“So are you, but we’re not going to let that get in our way.”
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
I gave destiny a push to make it happen. You study history, so stop your pathetic whining. You know better than most that destiny happens to us, it is never something we call forth.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
“So you’re saying, people not only may not want to hear a thing that’s true, that sometimes they make sure other people can’t either?”
“Yeah. Not all people, and not all the time, but yeah.”
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck.
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. Everything you’ve done needed doing and was set in motion long ago. Let go of your self-pity. Your feelings in these events matter no more than a leaf’s desire to steer the wind!
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)