I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”
“How long did it take for a past to die?”
“How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.”
“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”
“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”
“No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.”
“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?”
“To his complete astonishment, he later found himself offering up a stumbling prayer that the dog would be protected. It was a moment in which he felt a desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations. But, even praying, he felt a twinge of self-reproach, and knew he might start mocking his own prayer at any second. Somehow, though, he managed to ignore his iconoclastic self and went on praying anyway. Because he wanted the dog, because he needed the dog.”
“The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.”
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Book Keywords:
humor, vampire, legend
