The best Quotes from Arc of a Scythe

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.

Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.

I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

"Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

The sad truth about humanity... is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

"Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent."

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good - but we are all tested in this life… The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."