Philosophical Quotes Quotes

“The best kind of love is the one that results in the profoundest level of melancholy. Longing for someone whom you have never been with or desiring someone, who, for some reason, can’t ever be yours, are the kinds of pain that must be embraced and endured. It’s a privilege to feel sad because of love. For it means the love has served its purpose. As it evoked the emotions in us that we were never ready for.”
― Abhaidev, That Thing About You

“Our dream of happiness is waiting for another universe to collide with our own, and change what we ourselves cannot.”
― Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

“The Neon God is too big to fall now; too intricately interwoven with our technology, with our minds, to be ripped out from humanity. We let Him in, Miss Aurora. We allowed Him to occupy the Dark behind our sentient eyes. He is us now, and we are Him.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Aurora looked upon a city divided by human perception.

A civil war was ongoing: between those for whom the real world had primacy and those who had chosen Truesight as their truth. To escape the existential horror of their impending finality, people had donned their orange-tinted Veravisum Virtual Visors and locked their fears behind a separate reality. A hyperreality found at odds with everyday life.

The result was a war of visions: between truth and falsehood, between regular people and the VVV’ed. Each party claimed to see reality for what it truly was and more often than not, both parties were right.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“We created Him, yes. The Neon God is our mess. Our digital hive-mind. Our A.I.,’ said Aurora, watching the man absent-mindedly gape at the ceiling. ‘We built Him to manage our finances, our logistics, our armies, our wealth distribution…. and… and He went crazy.

'Because we filled Him with crappy commercials and stopped maintaining His morals. He’s only like this because of us, all of us. It’s His Algorithm – the one you wrote, the one you keep feeding to Him – we need to watch out for. That’s the Neon God’s soul. That’s His Justice.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Only Chromeheads believe the Neon God is a true god.’

‘And yet we treat Him like one, all of us. We worship His Broadcast and we pray for His Justice and sacrifice on His altar each day. When our own eyes deceive us, we make His Jurors into Apostles of Truesight, or rely on worldview-enhancers like that drug Rhapsody or the VVV Visors. Day after day, we find our every thought and action judged by kynikois we can’t see, by arbitrary rules we don’t know, in a reality we rejected. We lead empty lives and so we empty the world of all meaning.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“The Neon God is a plague, a global pandemic brought to bear by our hatred and greed. Because of Him, we have lost our soul, our free will, our humanity.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Aurora took a deep breath.

There it was, she thought, the reason behind all the madness. Why society was acrumble; why she and everyone else were on the brink of starvation. Humanity’s inevitable ending. The Darkspread. The Close. There, in the Golden Dragon’s dark underbelly was where all the maps stopped.

‘Two days from now, the Dark will cover the world,’ she said pensively, trying not to think what horrific sight awaited her behind the spring-loaded door, ‘and the Neon God shall rule over darkness.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Aurora shuddered, her face white with anger.

The only thing worse than having to compete for Gold Stars was not being allowed to compete anymore.

Muting was the Neon God’s favourite punishment, for He loved to hijack human language, almost as much as He loved hijacking perfectly human societal norms.

Judging people on their supposed worth was His favourite pastime, and God forbid you didn’t follow His arbitrarily-chosen set of beliefs, which appeared to change every hour.

Under the Neon God’s law, innocent words such as “powerline” or “screwdriver” had become obscene, trigger words that would most definitely get you muted, thrown in a Mind Prison or killed.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“The Algorithm was Justice. The Neon God – Judge and Jury.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Hiki Komori stirred Aurora away from the orgy and handed her a clean napkin.

‘Sorry about them. It’s the Rhapsody. To them, the real world is something akin to a cardboard reality.’

‘Why do it at all?’ she pouted, trying to wipe her shoe with the napkin. ‘Why take the damn drug?’

‘To escape their mortality, naturally. The great curtain call frightens them, so they avoid the applause. More so, they perform badly, spitting their lines out in spite. They are embittered and hungry and will no doubt eat your child.

'Yes, the soul of humanity will end in two days. But we’ve buried its body fifty decades before, wouldn’t you think? Come, Miss Aurora,’ he beckoned, ‘the lair of the Dragon runs deeper still.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“The VVV Visors had the weird knack of twisting your worldview: the more you looked at the world through their tangerine lenses, the more reality distorted and shifted to fit your new point of view.

This made Veravisum Virtual Visors incredibly unreliable, given their proclivity to redact your reality, confirm your private opinions and magnify your cognitive bias.”
― Louise Blackwick, 5 Stars

“Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“If men were content to love a peer instead of a slave — as indeed some men do who are without either arrogance or an inferiority complex — then women would be far less obsessed with their femininity; they would become more natural and simple and would easily rediscover themselves as women, which, after all, they are.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Extracts From: The Second Sex

“Thoughts are the seeds, actions are the expressions, effects are the harvest.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“We once celebrated a state of ease instead of insecurity.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“she told me not to worry so much - I was dead now and all the worrying had to stop at some point.”
― Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure

“I don’t know why loss, cruelty, or other such things exist in the world - but I have this moment only (yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised) - I get to choose what to make of this moment. Am I living in heaven or hell? Only I get to decide.”
― Emilyann Allen

“In the book of life, love is the most profound chapter; and the very essence from which all other chapters derive their meaning and depth.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Democracy is the garden where the seeds of liberty are sown by the hands of the many.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The past whispers its lessons to those who lend an attentive ear to the winds of time.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The bravest battle fought is the one that ends wars before they begin.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The bravest battle fought is the one that ends war before it begins.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The power of forgiveness frees both the forgiver and the forgiven.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Kindness is a language understood by all, transcending all barriers; speak it often and fluently.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“A mother's embrace is the nature's purest sanctuary.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“A mother's embrace is nature's purest sanctuary.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The strength of a family lies not just in blood ties, but in the shared nexus of compassion and support.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Politics tends to breed and justify irrationality.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“Life isn't fair, but fairness is for fools.”
― Nick Oliveri, Becoming the Conjurer