Richard Matheson Quotes
1926–2013 United States
Richard Burton Matheson (20 February 1926 – 23 June 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror, or science fiction.
- United States
- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Screenwriters
- Short story writers
Also known as: I Am Legend (novel)
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X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch.
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
I'd been in the densest part of the earth's aura he told me, an aqueous region which was the source of myths about the waters of Lethe, the River Styx.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
He had doubted too long. His concept of the society had become ironbound. It was almost impossible for him to believe that there were others like him. And, after the first shock had diminished, all the dogma of his long years alone had asserted itself.
I Am Legend (1954)
Last I will hang head down by all my legs and laugh and drip green all over until they are sorry they didn't be nice to me.
If they try to beat me again I'll hurt them. I will.
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
It's only when we're alive and in this world that we have the chance to progress. From the state of the world today, we haven't made much progress.
The New York Times interview (1994)
Let this hell be our heaven.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The way things shaped up, he would live out his life with no more than he already had. And how many years was that? Thirty, maybe forty if he didn’t drink himself to death.
The thought of forty more years of living as he was made him shudder.
I Am Legend (1954)