Skip to content

Quotes from Street Lethal — Steven Barnes

born 1952 United States

← All quotes by Steven Barnes

8 quotes

Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap.

Street Lethal (1983)

“Chicken?”
“Don’t want my feathers ruffled, it that’s what you mean.”

Street Lethal (1983)

I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed.

Street Lethal (1983)

Definitions are just words, just labels. And once you label something, the label gets between you and the thing.

Street Lethal (1983)

The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.

Street Lethal (1983)

The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do.

Street Lethal (1983)

And your life is ruined because you tried to do the Right Thing. Join the club honey—guess what, there are a few more of us out here who’ve had our brains beaten our with our own dreams.

Street Lethal (1983)

“Don’t be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.”

Street Lethal (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Barnes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.