"On the Beach" Quotes
After a nuclear war, the last survivors in Australia face the inevitable approach of deadly radiation in this post-apocalyptic novel.
fiction | 296 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It's not the end of the world at all. It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.
I suppose every man has to be a bit of a fool sometimes.
There's no sense in going out of your way to make things difficult, and that's what I was doing. It was a long time before I learned that, but I did learn it, and the fact that I did was a big help to me.
It's a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
We've had our day, and that's about the end of it. It's a funny thing, but when I was a young man I used to think that after I got old I could look back and feel proud of what I'd done. I couldn't work it out, but I thought that's the way it would be. But I'm not proud. I'm not proud at all.
It's not the dead that matter but the living.
It's no good thinking of the past. It counts for nothing. The only thing that counts is the everlasting present.
I tell you, my young friend, the devil is very cool and calculating. And the devil is a gentleman.
I'm going to tell you something that I've found out. I've learned that I am a woman. I've learned that I am a woman and I've learned what that means.
It's a good thing to be realistic. It's a good thing to see the truth about things and to know what you're up against.
