Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Dan Wells

Quote by Dan Wells

“It's like...I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter.”

Quote by Dan Wells

Book:Ruins
Create image

Work

Ruins

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Dan Wells
Dan Wells

Dan Wells is an American author born on March 4, 1977. He is known for his suspense and science fiction novels, particularly for his 'I Am Not a Serial Killer' series and 'John Wayne Gacy: The Smile of the Devil'. more

You May Also Like

“Then tell me what better I can do,” said Gwendolen, insistently. “Many things. Look on other lives besides your own. See what their troubles are, and how they are borne. Try to care about something in this vast world besides the gratification of small selfish desires. Try to care for what is best in thought and action—something that is good apart from the accidents of your own lot.” For an instant or two Gwendolen was mute. Then, again moving her brow from the glass, she said, “You mean that I am selfish and ignorant.” He met her fixed look in silence before he answered firmly—“You will not go on being selfish and ignorant!” She did not turn away her glance or let her eyelids fall, but a change came over her face—that subtle change in nerve and muscle which will sometimes give a childlike expression even to the elderly: it is the subsidence of self-assertion.”

VirtueSelf SacrificeUnselfishness
Book:Daniel Deronda
Create image

“Apparently, the highest evolution will not be permitted to creatures capable of what human moral experience has in all eras condemned. Apparently, the highest possible strength is the strength of unselfishness; and power supreme never will be accorded to cruelty or to lust. There may be no gods; but the forces that shape and dissolve all forms of being would seem to be much more exacting than gods. To prove a "dramatic tendency" in the ways of the stars is not possible; but the cosmic process seems nevertheless to affirm the worth of every human system of ethics fundamentally opposed to human egoism.”

MoralityCivilizationEthicsUnselfishnessCosmic Emotion
Book:Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Create image