Christopher Pike Quotes

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

~ Christopher Pike

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

~ Christopher Pike

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?You may ask.How old are you?It's none of your business

~ Christopher Pike

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

~ Christopher Pike

John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.

~ Christopher Pike

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

~ Christopher Pike

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.

~ Christopher Pike

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

~ Christopher Pike

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.

~ Christopher Pike

It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.

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The best art always comes unbidden.

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You’re in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.’'That’s not fair, comparing me to him. You don’t see me hammering nails in people.’'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.

~ Christopher Pike

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

~ Christopher Pike

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

~ Christopher Pike

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

~ Christopher Pike

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

~ Christopher Pike

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

~ Christopher Pike

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

~ Christopher Pike

I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting to be swept away. I pray for forgetfulness, yet my memory remains strong, as does the outstretched arm of the oppressive air. It seems as if the wind has been there since the beginning of the nightmare. Sometimes loud and harsh, a thousand sharp needles scratching at my reddened skin. Sometimes a whisper, a curious sigh in the black of night, of words more frightening than pain. I know now the wind has been speaking to me. Only I couldn't understand because I was too scared. I am scared now as I write these words. Still, there is nothing else to do.

~ Christopher Pike

We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

~ Christopher Pike

Darkness approaches from outside.I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

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Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

~ Christopher Pike

I don't want to die!Then you should never been born.

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I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

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But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.

~ Christopher Pike

My Dear Friend,You do not know me, but I know you. Since you first breathed in this world, I have watched you. The hopes you have wished, the worries you have feared, the sins you have committed–I know them all. I am The Observer, The Recorder. I am also The Punisher. The time has come for your punishment. Listen closely, the hourglass runs low.

~ Christopher Pike

If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.’'True.’ Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

~ Christopher Pike

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

~ Christopher Pike

But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

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Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.

~ Christopher Pike

When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.

~ Christopher Pike

Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.

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The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

~ Christopher Pike

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

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Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.

~ Christopher Pike

Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.

~ Christopher Pike

Sharon dropped to her knees and reached her hand over the edge. The gesture was supposed to be a sign of support. But she realized then that it was useless. His insanity was like the stream beneath the ground. It only flowed in one direction, into deeper and deeper darkness. She was going to lose him.

~ Christopher Pike

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

~ Christopher Pike

I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

~ Christopher Pike

Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know.

~ Christopher Pike