Blood Meridian

Book · 4 characters · 412 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Blood Meridian

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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read but one page."
Judge Holden Education
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"The truth is that all men are liars. Even in their silence."
Judge Holden Truth
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"Whatever is not law is chaos. And chaos is the natural state."
Judge Holden Justice
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"In the eyes of God all souls are equal. But God has no eyes."
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"Everything that is is the flower of being."
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"Men are born for games. Nothing else. There is no higher purpose."
Judge Holden Life
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"There is no God in the world save war."
Judge Holden War
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"It is not enough to know the names of things. You must know their essences."
Judge Holden Knowledge
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"The savage nations have already perished from the earth and in my last incarnation I too shall be gathered unto my fathers."
Judge Holden Death
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"You never know what you're looking at. That's the thing about the world."
Kid Wisdom
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"More evil than any man is the absence of one."
Judge Holden
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"The world cannot be known. It can only be encountered."
Judge Holden Knowledge
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"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"He would be pleased. War itself is the truest form of divination."
Judge Holden War
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"All things in the end give way to chaos and darkness"
Judge Holden Death
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"The spirit of man is its own tormentor"
Judge Holden Wisdom
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"Nothing is sacred but power"
Judge Holden Power
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"The truth is written in blood"
Judge Holden Truth
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"In the darkness all things are possible"
Judge Holden Imagination
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"What is your wager, pilgrim"
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"All things move toward death"
Judge Holden Death
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"The world is everything that is the case"
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"
Judge Holden Power
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"You think to oppose me but you are a fart in a whirlwind"
Judge Holden Power
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"The universe is a thing of beauty and symmetry"
Judge Holden Beauty
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"Men are born for games. Nothing else"
Judge Holden Philosophy
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"He looked at the young man and smiled thinly and he said that war endured because young men still thought it noble"
Judge Holden War
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"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"
Judge Holden Power
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"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
Judge Holden Power
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"Whatever is possible is possible somewhere."
Judge Holden Imagination