Frases de Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock
Data de nascimento: 18. Dezembro 1939
Outros nomes: Μάικλ Μούρκοκ, مایکل مورکوک
Michael Moorcock é um escritor britânico de ficção científica e fantasia que se manifesta como sendo políticamente vinculado à filosofia anarquista.
Criador do personagem Elric, de Jerry Cornelius e de uma infinidade de outros. Em suas histórias é comum o conceito de Multiverso e o mito do Campeão Eterno.
Citações Michael Moorcock
„Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful“
— Michael Moorcock, livro Elric of Melniboné
Fonte: Elric of Melniboné
„How true it is when they say there is nothing which makes a man more furious than the discovery that he has deceived himself!“
Book 1, Chapter 4 (p. 509)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
„This vast pile of natural beauty, those crags and fir trees and hovering hawks, those echoing ravines and vast tumblings of snow and earth, brought me swiftly to the understanding of my own insignificance and, indeed, the insignificance of all human struggle.“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The City in the Autumn Stars
Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 2 (pp. 194-195)
„The marvelous is of necessity a lie, a distortion. At best it is a metaphor which leads to the truth. I think that I know what causes the World’s Pain, lady. Or at least I think I know what contributes to that Pain.”
“And what would that be, Ulrich von Bek?”
“By telling a single lie to oneself or to another, by denying a single fact of the world as it has been created, one adds to the World’s Pain. And pain, lady, creates pain. And one must not seek to become saint or sinner, God or Devil. One must seek to become human and to love the fact of one’s humanity.”
I became embarrassed. “That is all I have learned, lady.“
“It is all that Heaven demands,” she said.
Fonte: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 16 (p. 158)
„He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The City in the Autumn Stars
Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 407)
„He was a fool,” said Willow calmly to Klein. “There are many who refuse their responsibilities. Fooling themselves they search for a ‘higher ideal’. He was a fool.”
“What are responsibilities?” said Klein laconically. “He knows. Responsibility, my dear, is another word for self-interest. For survival.“
She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.
Fonte: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 206)
„It’s never ‘should’ with engineers, my old friend, but ‘how’? Have you not learned that much?“
Fonte: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 231)
„You were both catalysts,” Mrs Persson told me, “no more than that. Do you still not realize your error? No individual can claim so much personal guilt. It is madness to do so. We are all guilty of supporting the circumstances, the self-deceptions, the misconceptions and misinformation which lead to War. Every lie we tell ourselves brings an evil like the destruction of Hiroshima closer. We drown in our lies.“
Book 2, Chapter 7 “A Mechanical Man” (p. 394)
Oswald Bastable, The Steel Tsar (1981)
„Violent men believe only in such concepts as ‘weakness’ and ‘cowardice’. They are so deeply cynical, so rooted in their own insane beliefs, that they cannot even begin to grasp the concept of ‘pacifism’.“
Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
Oswald Bastable, The Land Leviathan (1974)
„Despair leads to many forms of thought,” said the magus, “and many kinds of action. Despair drives some to greater sanity, towards an analysis of the world as it is and what it might be. Others it drives to deep and dangerous insanity, towards an imposition of their own desires upon reality. I sympathize with your despair, Johannes Klosterheim, because it has no solace, in the end. Your despair is the worst there is to know. And yet men often look upon the likes of you and envy you, as you doubtless envy Duke Arioch, as Duke Arioch doubtless envies his master Lucifer, whom he would betray, and perhaps as Lucifer envied God. And what does God envy, I wonder? Perhaps he envies the simple mortal who is content with his lot and envies nobody.“
Fonte: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 15 (p. 153)
„“So you are still our Master,” said Sabrina. She was frowning. She had come to be afraid again.
“Not so!” Lucifer turned, almost in rage. “You are your own masters. Your destiny is yours. Your lives are your own. Do you not see that this means an end to the miraculous? You are at the beginning of a new age for Man, an age of investigation and analysis.”
“The Age of Lucifer,” I said, echoing some of His own irony.
He saw the joke in it. He smiled.
“Man, whether he be Christian or pagan, must lean to rule himself, to understand himself, to take responsibility for himself. There can be no Armageddon now. If Man is destroyed, he shall have destroyed himself.”
“So we are to live without aid,” said Sabrina. Her face was clearing.
“And without hindrance,” said Lucifer. “It will be your fellows, your children and their children who will find the Cure for the World’s Pain.”
“Or perish in the attempt,” said I.
“It is a fair risk,” said Lucifer. “And you must remember, von Bek, that it is in my interest that you succeed. I have wisdom and knowledge at your disposal. I always had that gift for Man. And now that I may give it freely I choose not to do so. Each fragment of wisdom shall be earned. And it shall be hard-earned, captain.”“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The War Hound and the World's Pain
Fonte: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)
„His stated principle is that all knowledge should be at the public disposal. He argues against the hoarding of scientific discoveries, believing that the miserly act of secretion is in itself bound to produce fear and unnecessary caution in the mind of the citizen. Superstitious destruction of the unfamiliar is its most common expression. Prince Badehoff-Fischer argues that in such matters a secret is parallel, if not identical, to a lie. Both occur because one body seeks power over another.“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The City in the Autumn Stars
Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 226)
„I had sampled several such brotherhoods, including the Rosey Cross and the Orange Lodge, during the period in which I examined the Supernatural and found it not merely uninstructive but damnably dull, its members possessing nothing in the way of individual imagination and a great need to seek confirmation in numbers for the merits of miserable little madnesses…. Such people as a rule were lonely, confounded misfits, attempting to alter the surrounding evidence of Nature by inventing abstractions to explain why common facts were false and ordinary reality a poor illusion.“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The City in the Autumn Stars
Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 210; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)
