The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés mythology

Aller à la citation

---

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés adaptation

Aller à la citation

---

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés adaptation

Aller à la citation

---

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés sadness

Aller à la citation

---

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés alcohol

Aller à la citation

---

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés curiosity

Aller à la citation

---

He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions had no location; they could follow him around.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés self-honesty

Aller à la citation

---

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés contentment sleep death

Aller à la citation

---

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

Richard Matheson

Mots clés death

Aller à la citation

---

[...] Pero luego el silencio cubrió las cabezas, como una manta pesada. Todos volvieron hacia Neville unos rostros pálidos. Neville los observó serenamente. Y de pronto comprendió. Yo soy el anormal ahora. La normalidad es un concepto mayoritario. Norma de muchos, no de un sólo hombre.

Y comprendió, también, la expresión de aquellos rostros: angustia, miedo, horror. Tenían miedo, sí. Era para ellos un monstruo terrible y desconocido, una malignidad más espantosa aún que la plaga. Un espectro invisible que había dejado como prueba de su existencia los cadáveres desangrados de sus seres queridos. Y Neville los comprendió, y dejó de odiarlos.

Richard Matheson

Aller à la citation

---

« ; premier précédent
Page 4 de 9.
suivant dernier » ;

---

---