Pretentious & Poetic Sentences, Vol. 14
(Pretentious sentences from various sources for muses that like to speak in grandiose sentences. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"What we are is as much where destiny takes us as it is what we do with the journey."
"Who are we if not the stories we tell ourselves?"
"The only way to keep evil out is to not unlock the door."
"You'd think that being exposed to all this ugliness would make us more appreciative of beautiful things, wouldn't you? But we don't, do we? We don't balance the ugly with the beautiful. We just accept ugly."
"I still remember the sparkle in your eye when I told you about the secrets of the world."
"Glory? Glory is for those too weak to find inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites feeding on the affection of lesser men."
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shriek and groans of the dying who cry aloud for blood, vengeance, and desolation."
"There are no gods. No herefores and hereafters. No futures but those we make for ourselves."
"Each person we love is a different shaped key. Each key unlocks a different part of us, but only one sets us free."
"Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has a chance."
"A sacrifice is not a sacrifice if it is not valued by the giver."
"No man can outlive entropy."
"The ties of flesh are deep and strong, and the capacity to love is a vital, rich, and all-consuming function of the human animal."
"There is no virtue in fighting for conquest. Nothing is more worthless and hollow than obliterating freedom for the sake of more land, more coin, more voices singing your name in holy hymn."
"Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for. It is why tyrants always fall."
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"An army cannot sneak up on a man, but a lover can."
"The difference between gods and demons depends on where one is standing at the time."
"There are no hells. No gods. No eternal rewards or punishments."
"You are afraid of this truth because it is of such magnitude that you will be forever remade by it. What you do not realise is that you have already been changed."
"We think we have seen it all, and yet there always comes a day when the universe shows us the folly of that hubris."
"How do you find the facts when memory becomes a dream?"
"Is it such a terrible thing to feel sorrow for your enemy? What is he, except a brother with another name?"
"You don't believe that a death can be transformational?"
"Do what you want. Take what you want. Gods make rules; they don't follow them."
"The truth can't be wrong, even if it is ugly."
"You share the most common ailment of all men: the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle."
"This is the stillness before the storm. This is the eve before the end."
"You are more than the stone and steel face you show the stars. You are allowed to be open."
"Aren't we all just pretending to be other people? Isn't that part of human nature?"
"There is no fundamental immutable evil in the cosmos. It is too large and sterile for such melodrama."
"A good death is a death of art. A bad one is a death of the butcher."
"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it also cures."
"When a man loses purpose, that's how he dies."
"You have to be careful fighting monsters or you might turn into one yourself."
"Time isn't linear; it's cyclical. Sons become their fathers. It's in their blood."
